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...Queen. Motoring through the slums of the East End last week Queen Mary was greeted at ane point by sullen glances and dour silence, instead of the cheers which are her usual portion. Undaunted, she bade her chauffeur draw up at the curb opposite a particularly ungracious throng. Stepping out, Her Majesty evinced an interest in several brats squalling on the sidewalk. Their mothers, flattered, melted into smiles. Cried a burly oysterman: "'Ere now! Give 'Er Majesty a clap; she's worth...
Whimsical connoisseurs of Victorianism chuckled and rubbed their hands last week as the London firm of Longmans, Green & Co.* issued two new volumes of the diaries and correspondence of Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow...
International jurists elevated an eyebrow. Students of the validity of human testimony jotted an additional note or two. The Manhattan-edited Chicago-printed weekly, Liberty, was "permanently" barred from Canada, "because it is publishing a series of articles concerning King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and the present Prince of Wales which are misrepresentations and libelous." Thereupon the persons immediately concerned flatly contradicted one another, as follows...
...George H. Boivin, Canadian Minister of Customs and Excise: "The article complained of is a very libelous one concerning the Queen Mother...
...LOVE AFFAIRS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS?A Political History?Martin Hume?Brentano...