24 OCTOBER 1931, Page 40

Last week The Queen celebrated its seventieth birthday. The birthday

number contained, in addition to a general survey of women's life and letters during the years of its existence, an interesting article by Mr. Geoffrey Harmsworth tracing the path by which The Queen emerged to distinction out of the bevy of other " Ladies " publications then and subsequently in existence. Another article, particularly apposite to the present situation, is reprinted from the number of January 2nd, 1864, protesting against the tyranny of Paris in the realms of female attire.