QUEEN VICTORIA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 5

QUEEN VICTORIA.

UNPUBLISHED JOURNALS. DAILY RECORD OF HER LIFE. 13S0 VOLUMES. (nr TELEGItAFH—IMIESS ASSOCIATION—COFIBIGHt.) (Roc. March 7, 4.45 p.m.) London, March G. King Edward lias permitted Lord Esher to utiliso tlio lato Queen Victoria's unpublished journals for an address to tho Royal Institution. Thero aro 1250 largo volumes of oorrespondcnco and journals, and 100 manuscript volumes, containing a daily record of Quoen Victoria's life from her thirteenth birthday to within ten days of hor death. They will never bo published in their entirety, as tho lato Quoen expressed a wish to that effect. The documents have been examined by Princess Beatrice, who has copied many volumes, excising tho passages which Queen Victoria desired to remain private.

TWO ROYAL BOOKS,

From their first publication unusual interest lias attached to tho letters of Queen Victoria. They came to most of their readers as a revelation of a personality whoso forcefulness had never beforo been realised. Through all tho letters the lato Queen is revealed as a woman of great individuality of character, and it is evident that in many cases where she was thought to have been swayed by her Ministers, Queen Victoria had acted on her own initiative and according to her own clear-sighted judgment. When at Christmas time the letters were published in popular form they had an enormous sale. In fact, it has been stated that tue two royal books, Queen Alexandra's gift book and tho popular edition of Queen Victoria s letters almost completely killed tho mi sas5 as ? a l es man J" a popular writer. 1 lie Royal Institution of Great Britain (men•111 tllc a ' JOVO cablegram), was founded in 1(99, incorporated, in 1800, and ' enlarged in laid. Its chief objects are: To prosecute scientific and literary research; to illustrate and diffuse the principles of inductive and experimental science; to promote social intercourse among .lovers of science, and to afford to them opportunities for collective and individual study. It gives publio lectures, holds weekly meetings of its members, and supports a modelroom and a reading room. The library contains about 60,000 volumes.