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...Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, journeyed to The Hague and settled down for a fortnight's visit as the house guest of U. S. Minister to the Netherlands Richard Montgomery Tobin. Presently Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands bade Sir Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons: Prince Henry, 28, or Prince George...
Died. Rupert Alexander George Augustus Cambridge, Viscount Trematon, 20, nephew of British Queen-Empress Mary; at Lyons, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. His father, the Earl of Athlone, is Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. As everyone knows, the Queen and her brother, the Earl of Athlone, were of the Teck Teutonic ducal house of the Kingdom of Württemberg; but by royal British Decree of July 14, 1917, the name of the British house of Teck was changed to Cambridge...
...YEARS BETWEEN. 2 Vols--I. The Mysterious Cavalier: H. Martyr to the Queen. By Paul Feval and M. Lassez. Longnians, Green and Co. New York...
...casual writings: Lewis Carroll. His book was illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and Euclid, Book...
...married, grown old, the mother of two sons who died in the War, had very little money; she had to sell the book her friend had given her. Going away from Sotheby's auction rooms, she looked as startled as the other Alice might have looked on the Queen's Croquet Ground...