THE LATE MR. HEPWORTH DIXON ON THE QUEEN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1930, 1 May 1880, Page 3

THE LATE MR. HEPWORTH DIXON ON THE QUEEN.

The last paragraphs of the concluding volume of “Royal Windsor,” which Mr Hepworth Dixon had just completed before his death, are as follows :—“ The central figure in this family group is veiled. The veil is not without a silver lining, but the veil is here; a habit of the mind as well as of the physical frame. Ho great emotion should be seen too near. To read the story of such a loss we need some help from time and space. When Queen Victoria has become to the descendants of her people what Queen Elizabeth is to us ; when all the trifles of our time are gone, and only the realities left, the story of her love, her happiness, her loss, will be a favorite theme of poets, artists and story tellers. Faith that knows no limit, constancy that clings like life, are not of every age. What will the writers of a coming day, who take this theme for tale and idyll, have to tell f They will draw the picture of a young and fatherless girl, called while in her teens, to occupy the greatest throne on earth ; who had to take her place at the head of a great society, with little or no support from her immediate kin. They will paint her grandeur and her loneliness in a station which allows no sharer and admits no fii-nd .Tloy will show the Saxon Prince who came to her and made himself a part of her, then, on line on line, the story of their lives will be enrolled ; years of domestic bliss, broken at length by sudden snap in the very noon-tide of their joy. Then may come the pathetic sequel of a sorrow which knows no change, which draws away from haunts of men, which lays down much of the pomp of Royal state, and gives up all the vanities of the world—to an old age, when blood is said to be cold, but in the flush of life when all the tides of emotion are running high—to nurse in solitude a deep and tender sentiment of personal faith. Millions will dwell with fondness on this story of a human heart, in which the woman rises to a higher throne than that of Queen.”