Last Saturday's Times contains a charming appreciation of Queen Victoria
from President Loubet. The Paris corre- spondent of that journal, having presented the President with a copy of " The Life of Queen Victoria " published by the Times, M. Loubet, after expressing his thanks, said that he would ask his grandson's governess, who knew English well, to acquaint the boy with the contents, and " to explain to him how this lofty personality, who so distinguished and dominated her epoch, was able to exercise so decisive an action on the events of her time without ever abandoning the reserve im- posed upon her by her situation, without ever seeking to put herself forward, and yet without ever ceasing to follow with the keenest vigilance all that went on in the world and all that it behoved her to know in the interest of the great country and the great nation whose destinies were so dear to her." This seems to us an admirable definition of Queen Victoria's attitude, precise in statement as well as sympathetic in tone.
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