is this aspect of the Queen's personal character as it affects her Imperial position which is of most importance. In her private life she-has always been devoted to a calm and sequestered domesticity. Only for a very few.years after her ascension to the throne did' she show any real affection for the. splendour of Court life in London. Afterwards, she has recorded how delighted she, wae to escape from the brilliant ennuis of balls end: State nights at the Opera, to her husband, her children, and her pets, at Balmoral and Osborne The books she has written:. Our Life in the Highlands, and the others, her letters to her uncle, even her public addresses to her peoples, have the old-fashioned tone of a story by Miss Austen or Miss Edgeworth. She records how her husband looked and spoke, how the "children" were naughty or good, little incident of pleasure of annoyance that modern "culture" would sneer at. She herself heard her children's lessons, she watched personally over their religious instruction, she was the most dutiful of wives and mothers. She has been showing the whole world for sary years that the mere commonp! of private goodness are hu cagogh yo diguify'@ throne, Nor has her
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