It was a happy thought of the authorities to select the Queen's eightieth birthday for the opening of Kensington Palneo to the public. Of all the Royal Palaces there is not one which has hitherto been so little known to the general public as that in which the Queen was horn. People seareely realised how rich were the art_treasnres with which it was adorned. Externally the palace is not beautiful, but within it contains some of the finest decorative work of Wren and Grinling Gibbons, It is true that some of the other rooms display somewhat batharous taste, but even these are curious and intensely interest-Among them is the room in which the Queen was baptised, Then, in addition to a lot of tine specimens of furniture of the period, there is to be seen a remarkable collection of the toys with which the Queen played in the early years e century. Many of them show manifest signs of active service, but on the whole they are splendidly preserved, and they excite a much keener interest among visitors to the palace than the most beautiful of the decorations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.