Various publications connected with the approaching Corona- tion may be
mentioned together. First we have How and Why King George will be Crowned. By Joseph Hammond, LL.B. (Skeffington and Son. ls. net.) Canon Hammond, who has the art of putting these things in a striking and popular manner, tells us what the ceremony of coronation means, describes the place where it will take place, gives the details of the service, the symbolic acts and belongings, &c. Then we have The Coronation Regalia. By W. H. Stacpoole, LL.D. (" Whitakers' Almanac " Office. is. net.) Here we have the history of the past—the " Parliament" of 1649 "totally destroyed" the regalia, forgetting, Dr. Stacpoole says, to do the same to the Coronation Chair— and an account of the present : a very interesting little book this. Finally, we have Hymns for the Coronation of King George V. (Skeffington and Sons.) The Hymns are the National Anthem, and seven others, some new and -some old, the writers being Bishop Moule (of Durham), J. A. Robinson, J. Baring Gould, J. Ellerton, S. T. Stone, A. T. Seward, J. A. Warner, and A. C. Ainger. Each has been set to music by a composer of repute.
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