Feb. 28.
WHEN princesses are wedded fairies smile: so then, too, must all lesser folk. There is, however, no need to fall back on f tradition to ensure for Princess Miry and Viscount Tascelles the unaffected pleasure that is felt to-day by all her father's subjects' or to add warmth to the wishes that go out to her and her future husband from all parts of the Empire. We are glad that the Princess has not looked abroad for a hus-bank, interested to think that she has managed her love affairs in her own way, pleased in her happiness because she is herself, of whom no one high or low has ever had occasion to say a hard word.
Just as fairies must smile on royal courtships, so must royalty ever be presented as gracious and beloved. Once again, in respect of the British royal family, fairy tales come tr We do not, perhaps, attach so much importance to the graciousness as we did formerly. That is a quality which belongs to the divinity of kingship which has gone out of fashion, to the days when the mere smile of royalty was a benefaction to compensate for any mortal ills. And yet. by the curious illogical process _in which the British people expect their kings to reign without governing, we. look on them both as apart from and one with ourselves. It was said of King Edward that, as Prince of Wales, he never reminded anyone that he was Prince and never let them forget it. This faculty he would seem to have passed on to his descendants, so that they can both aptly express in their bearing their headship of the Empire and yet be in harmony with the democratic spirit of the age by joining in all the pastimes and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.