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THE HONGKONG FREMGR.PR: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1921.

THE BOOKSHELF

(By "Librarian.")

A GRACIOUS QUEEN. It is difficult, almost impas- ible, to credit the flight of the years when thinking of Queen Alexandra. Since the death "of King Edward comparatively little has been heard of his consort, albeit her Majesty is still to the fore in works of benevolence;| but up till little more than s decade ago

Сов avery habituated to the ever-youthful| likenesses of this "daughter of the Vikings" A biography of the Queen-Mother has just appeared from the pen of Mr. W. R. H. Trowbridge entitled Queen Alexandes: & Study of Royalty" (Fisher Unwin: 2m).

Was

Lady Paget, in ber foreword to this book, speaks of Queen Alexandra as having imprinted a certain cochet on fashion. This cachet was "great simplicity, nailed to grace and dignity." Mr. Trowbridge might perhaps have taken the hint, for there is a certain straining after grandeur. Apart from this foible, his Life, with its delightful series of portraits and photographs, is su attractive volume. We are given a pleasant sketch of the Princess! alexandra's upbringing at the Yellow Place in Copenhagen and her' parents country estate of Bernstorff in the days when her father, Prince Christian of Glucksburg, bad only just become by the London Protocal of 1852, The Heir-Presumptive to the Danish Throne.

Princess Christian expected much of her daughters. She taught them to make their own clothes, and instructed them as well in the art of housekeeping. Masters and governors were provided for the more refined accomplishroents. Muchatten- tion was paid in those days to the study of deportment. From it the Princess Alexandra acquired the extreme grace of her carriage. Her dancing and riding instructors were loud int their praise. For music she had a special talent.... She was deft, too, with her needle. A strip of ribbon in her fingers was like a wand in a magician'a band.

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The trails, foreseen by these

and

A question asked by a London writer as to whether any novel- ist had written about the same family, to the extent of fire novels was answered by Mr. Frederic

Harrison so long ago as 1906. In

Mr. Trowbridge gives credit to the Times for being the first voice to declare, as early as 1858, that Princess Alexandra was

**the most eligible lady among those of Royal blood in Europe for the Prince of Wales to marry. The plan seemed startling, for German alliances were then the rogue.) Yet, thanks in good part to the diplomacy of Lady Faget, who was close in the coañdence of the Crown Princess of Prussia. the Consort himself was won over to approve. When Queen Victoria, after his death, completed the keen eyes. were not locg coming. design, in 1862, at Brussels, where The year after her wedding was the betrothal took place, she was the rear of the tragic tangle of accused in Germany of having Schleswig-Holstein,

the betrayed the German cause Danish Princess had to stand by half millions the French Govero-Lady Palmarston, however, gave powerless while a neatral Eng

voice to a different verdict.

and watched the crushing of mant bearing the chief expense.

like the Danish connexion. We Denmark. In 1871 ber husband Lave bad too much of Germany was brought to the very gates of and Berlin and Coburgs."

death, but at least she knew when he recovered that she had proved her ability as a nude. told here that Queen Victoria afterwards remarked sadly," Had ment, near Blackfriar5, 3359 the Dreadnough: Hospital. Press the following year throw & raray Prince bad the same treat. Thackeray, Lytton and Dickers photographers were exceedingly sunbeam across mid-Victorian might not have died. During the ment as the Prince of Wales, be keen on picturing her Majesty ancals. London came out in a seclusion walking past a line of smiling tamult of loyalty to welcome its

of widowed Queen, hospital curses.

the Prince of Wales But the pro- new Princess. On her yacht at the leader of society. We read gramme interfered with this. At Gravesend she appeared "dressed that when she had an attack of last i approached the marquis, and entirely in white. with a white rheumatism even the "Alexandra be consented at once to escort shawl draped loosely around her imp" became a fashion. (Was Queen Alexandra from the other shoulders, and a little white bon-there not also an Alexandra benefit of the camera men. end of the tea tent for the special net on her head." If the vision curl Society was wiser in charming photograph was the portrait of her at this period, given the Opera.

A was at all like Lauchert's ethereal! copying her lova. for music and

here as a frontispiece, one under-

Mr. Trowbridge's account stands why people were ready to be crushed round her carriage as

Queen Alexandra's years sa coa" she drove into London (having sort to Edward VII. is jejuns changed into

This period was the summer of meuve-coloured

President, the old training sloop of the Royal Naval Volunteer Haserves, looks strangely forlorn

A FAIRY PRINCESS,

Two years ago, writes a cor respondent in a London paper, I. had the opportunity of nottog be kindliness of the late Marquis of Milford Haven. He was receiving the marriage of

The reception in England and

the sea-king

at ita station off the EmbankQueen Alexandra on her visit to daughter from over the ses

Home journal. Its mast3 are unstepped and lie on the deserted deck. Its place will shortly be taken by Saxifrage, a sloop built during the wat

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Unique in clubdom is the 1900 Club, twenty-one this year. The club had no home until 1910, when premises were taken at 5, Pickering-place, a little-known byway of St. James's street London. Here the members find themselves in an old world at- mosphere, everything being in

& one as might have axisted in

Half a century ago the first

result.

ia

We are

of

sixties. It is amusing to read

an introduction, written ia that) year, to the Barsetshire Novels of Anthony Trollope, Mr. Frederic Harrion tells us thas "to fill eight volumes in six distinct tales with the intricate relations of one se: of families, all within access to one cathedral city, covering a whole generation in time and exbibiting the same characters from youth to maturity and age- this is indeed a perilous task," Balzac and Zola abroad, and Scott

continues Mr. Harrison, but I at home have tried this plan,

think no English oovelist has worked it out on so large ■ field, with such minute elaboration, and with such entire masters of the many dilemmas and pitfalls which beset the competitor in this long sad intricate course."

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Actress, playwright, novelist,] and critic that was so imposing list of activities for a woman 100] Dean Pigon, a former vicar,

years ago, and is in itself enough garned all parsons to keep away

to land interest to Elizabeth from Doncaster during race week,

Inchbald and her Circle," which keeping with the style prevailing because expert pick-pockets went silk, with a skirt, the foes of the the Queen's charm, not less en- a century and a half ago; in fact,

Mr.

3. R. Littlewood has the club's habitation 19 jast such clergyman ia bis time was hurry very moderate expanse "). At the

there disguised as clergy. A cricoline were glad to see, of chanting than the spring of the

written.

It is a very interesting picture the time of George 11. Tae clubing along High-street to the rail- Marsion House there was some again how even the sturdy anti- house was once the residence of way station, when somebody had thing like a riot, the police were British prejudices of Pierre Loti of stage and literary circles at the end of the eighteenth one of the Lords Kirkcudbright. his pocket picked, and a police-overwhelmed, and the Princess melted after an audience, bus and the beginning of the man promptly laid hands on the was seen with her own hande some more of the incidents of 50 nineteeth centuries, and such running parson. In vain heaving the head of a boy from the splendid a reign might have been famous figures as Mrs. Siddons, indignantly protested that he was wheels. But, after all, this scene

noticed. Of the life of Alexandra, train was sent through the Mont the Rector of Great Snoreham, or and the marriage ceremonies at the Queen Mother, Mr. Trow John Kemble, Maria Edgworth, Cenis Tunnel, travelling from the some such place. "Come along." Windsor have been described by ridge writes with comparative and Garrick move through the}

pages. She was a charming the policeman; you' master who could pierce to the brevity. Her Majesty, it may be woman," writes Mr. Littlewood. back again with the engineer, London crooks are all of you inner meaning of the pagesat remembered, did not approve of That she was a busy woman, too, Gratical, and a party of friends. either vicara, rectors, or arch- Thackeray, in the "Round about his title when adopted after the The formal opening took place deacons.”

Geath of King Edward, and the shows, and her life makes

the list of her books and plays Luckily the captive Papers," writes: a few days later, and by October, had his card-case, and Dr. Figu

Court Circular discontinued its On the day of her entrance

fascinating story well worth 1871, a regular service was insoon released him, but he had lost

use. The interval haa been operation. The first of the great the last train to

the care lavished on it in this! into London who looked more marked by a continued interest

book. Alpine tunnels had been projected | Essex parish,

bright and happy than the Many years earlier, but the war

Princess? On the day of the in the welfare of the people, and between Sardinia and Austria

marriage, the fair face wore its Alexandra Day, with its roses, prevented the carrying out of the

marks of care already, and look-the most beneficent of fetes, stands in our calendars to prove Prane. Excavations were actually

*ed out quite grave, and frighten- Commenced in 1857, and

ed almost, under the wreaths it. It may not be the least boring Was completed

and lace and orange flowers, enduring part of the graceful and tidristmas Day 13 years later.

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