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There is much that is similar in the lives of the two royal unfortunates, if we accept Masefield's account. Each was queen in a strange land over an unfriendly people, each in actuality ruler; each was the largest of bitter hatred and disgusting contumely in life; each died a violent death at the hands of rebellious subjects. But there the parallel ends, for Queen Jezebel lacked in life friends or faithful servants, nor were there any to mourn her dead saving her tiring-women. A foreigner among foreigners, civilized among barbarians, of race and religion different from...
...Constitution of Great Britain is universally acknowledged as the acme of empiricism. So recent as 1894 Queen Victoria accepted Gladstone's resignation without asking him for his advice. It follows then, there being no law against it, that the Sovereign need not be bound to ask for advice and may order a dissolution of Parliament without consulting anyone...
...Esme, aged 60, has held a number of diplomatic, consular and political posts, among which was that of Councillor of Embassy in Washington from 1906 to 1908. When the South African War broke out, he joined the Yeomanry as a trooper and received the Queen's medal and four clasps...
Neighbors. After injecting a vigorous stimulant into the flagging hopes of their numerous supporters with a wholly admirable production of Queen Victoria (TIME, Nov. 26), the Equity Players resorted to this discouraging domestic farce...
...FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL - Thomas Hardy-MacmiUan ($3.50). Mr. Hardy treats the legend of Tristram and Iseult characteristically. His emphasis is on the sweeping, almost cosmic tragedy of inevitable love. The strange beauty of the legend takes on new meaning under the sharp observation of Hardy. The medievalism of the legend is caught in its form-a "play for mummers, without scenery...