Were I writing of any one of Queen Victoria's Palaces, I should have no need to speak of its situation: but, travellers though we are, we do not all see these quaint Dutch cities, so a few introductory words may not come amiss.

Still, my old massa tells me O, This is a Christian country O, &c. There is a country far away, Friend Hopper says 't is Canada, And if we reach Victoria's shore, He says that we are slaves no more.

Now haste all bondmen, let us go, And leave this Christian country O; God help us to Victoria's shore, Where we are free and slaves no more.

In the Parliament which assembled after Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, in 1837, the voice of Gladstone was heard in nearly every important discussion; but the speech which most prominently brought him into public notice and gave him high rank as a parliamentary orator was that in 1838, in reference to West India emancipation.

"Victoria's sceptre o'er the waves," circa 1837.

Queen Victoria's kindness in asking her to remain at Pembroke Lodge was a great comfort to her.

VICTORIA'S flag I flew, as I sailed, As I sailed; VICTORIA'S flag I flew, as I sailed; VICTORIA'S flag I flew,

The Household of Sir Thomas More Anne Manning, one of the most active women novelists of Queen Victoria's reign, was born in London on February 17, 1807.

Queen Victoria's monument, which stands in the most prominent plaza, where the busiest thoroughfares meet, represents that good woman sitting upon her throne under a lofty Gothic canopy of marble.

As they came to be on more intimate terms, Sylvia was told a great many details about Aunt Victoria's present and past life, in the form of stories, especially about that early part of it which had been spent with her brother.

" Sylvia looked about her at the cut-glass and silver utensils on the lace-covered dressing-table, at Aunt Victoria's pale lilac crêpe-de-chine négligée, at the neat, pretty young maid deft-handedly rubbing the perfumed cream into the other woman's well-preserved face, impassive as an idol's.

If Aunt Victoria's voice had sounded like that, she didn't wonder that Arnold had hidden under the bed.

Decidedly the discomposing effect of Aunt Victoria's visit lasted even after she had gone away.

She had a sudden vision of the white-tiled, velvet-carpeted florist's shop in a corner of Aunt Victoria's hotel where, behind spotless panes of shining plate-glass, the great clusters of cut-flowers dreamed away an enchanted liferoses, violets, lilies of the valley, orchids....

At the time she had seen nothing funny in Aunt Victoria's statement, but she was now immensely tickled to remember Aunt Victoria's Olympian certainty of herself and her mother's grave mask of serious consideration of the idea.

None of the chiffon which came in Aunt Victoria's boxes would do.

In the first place, how, coming from such a ..." He checked himself and changed the form of his question: "I overheard you speaking to Victoria's maid, and I've been lying awake nights ever since, wondering how it happened that you speak French with so pure an accent.

He had askedit was like Lawrence's eerie waysapropos of nothing at all, "What sort of a man was Aunt Victoria's husband?

As an apology for their seeming callousness they reiterated Aunt Victoria's dictum: "We can know nothing about it until Felix comes.

" The married daughter of one of the most brilliant men of Queen Victoria's reign has an only child.

Queen Victoria's daughters.

(Pub. abroad as Queen Victoria's John Brown) © 10Mar38, AI-23830; 28Jul38, A119897.

But whether Victoria's struggles were more lively than he had anticipated, or whether Ted purposely relaxed his hold, certain it was that the gander, with a scream of fury, backed out of his grasp and fluttered on to the floor; proceeding to waddle with great speed and evident indignation across the kitchen into the yard without.

She was all swathed around in the chiffon-sentiment of good Victoria's day.

A lady of Queen Victoria's court once asked her if she did not think that one of the satisfactions of the future life would be the meeting with the notable figures of the past, such as Abraham, Isaac and King David.