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QUEEN VICTORIA

STORY OF HER LIFE AND REIGN

1819-1901

[ILLUSTRATION: QUEEN VICTORIA. (From a Photograph by Russell & Son.)]

  'Her court was pure, her life serene;
     God gave her peace; her land reposed;
     A thousand claims to reverence closed
   In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen.'

TENNYSON.

'God bless the Queen for all her unwearied goodness! I admire her as awoman, love her as a friend, and reverence her as a Queen. Her courage,patience, and endurance are marvellous to me.'

NORMAN MACLEOD.

        'A Prince indeed,
   Beyond all titles, and a household name,
   Hereafter, through all time, Albert the Good.'

TENNYSON.

PREFACE.

This brief life of Queen Victoria gives the salient features of her reign,including the domestic and public life, with a glance at the wonderfulhistory and progress of our country during the past half-century. In thespace at command it has been impossible to give extended treatment. Thehistory is necessarily very brief, as also the account of the public andprivate life, yet it is believed no really important feature of her lifeand reign has been omitted.

It is a duty, incumbent on old and young alike, as well as a pleasingprivilege, to mark how freedom has slowly 'broadened down, from precedentto precedent,' and how knowledge, wealth, and well-being are more widelydistributed to-day than at any former period of our history. And thisknowledge can only increase the gratitude of the reader for the goldenreign of Queen Victoria, of whom it has been truly written:

     A thousand claims to reverence closed
     In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.—Reign of Queen Victoria—Outlook of Royalty in 1819—Duke andDuchess of Kent—Birth of Victoria—Anecdotes.
CHAPTER II.—First Meeting with Prince Albert—Death of WilliamIV.—Accession of Queen Victoria—First Speech from theThrone—Coronation—Life at Windsor—Personal Appearance—Betrothal toPrince Albert—Income from the Country.
CHAPTER III.—Marriage—Family Habits—Birth of Princess Royal—Queen'sViews of Religious Training—Osborne and Balmoral—Death of the Duke ofWellington.
CHAPTER IV.—Chief Public Events, 1837-49—Rebellion in Canada—Opium Warwith China—Wars in North-west India—Penny Postage—Repeal of theCorn-laws—Potato Famine—Free Trade-Chartism.
CHAPTER V.—The Crimean War, 1854-55—Interest of the Queen and PrinceConsort in the suffering Soldiers—Florence Nightingale—Distribution ofVictoria Crosses by the Queen.
CHAPTER VI.—The Indian Mutiny, 1857-58—The Queen's Letter to LordCanning.
CHAPTER VII.—Marriage of the Princess Royal—Twenty-first Anniversary ofWedding-day—Death of the Prince-Consort.
CHAPTER VIII.—Death of Princess Alice—Illness of Prince of Wales—TheFamily of the Queen—Opening of Indian Exhibition and ImperialInstitute—Jubilee—Death of Duke of Clarence—Marriage of Princess May.
CHAPTER IX.—The Queen as an Artist and Author—In her HolidayHaunts—Norman Macleod—Letter to Mr Peabody—The
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