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...CENTURY OF BRITISH MONARCHY (274 pp.)-Hector Bolitho-Longmans, Green...
When Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in 1851, she was one of 20 reigning European sovereigns. The number has now dropped to seven,* but, as Hector Bolitho says in A Century of British Monarchy, "the influence of the monarchy in Britain [has] remained as strong as ever." Bolitho looks for the sources of this strength and finds a big one in the energetic character of the royal family itself...
...REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA (437 pp.) -Hector Bolitho -Macmillan...
This new biography of Victoria, which is Bolitho's ninth about this period, has nothing of Strachey's amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...
...Author Bolitho's reason for doing more amply what Strachey has already done more economically is the emergence of fresh material-among others, hitherto unpublished letters from Prince Consort Albert to his German tutor, letters from the Queen to her daughter the Empress of Germany, tappings from such virgin sources as the late Queen Marie of Rumania, certain aged members of Victoria's court and the 19th Century files of the Hartford (Conn.) Times and Courant. Hardly enough to justify a new and inferior biography...