THE QUEEN'S NEW BOOK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1633, 13 March 1884, Page 2

THE QUEEN'S NEW BOOK.

; Queen Victoria's new book was published on the 14th February, A despatch says the dedication is as follows I—" To my loyal Highlanders, and especially to tho memory of my .'devoted personal ~ attendant, faithful John Brown, these records of my widowed life in Scotland are gratefully dedicated.-Victoria R." In her opening pages the Queen devotes a number of chapters to Brown. She tells how he heoame a favorite with Prince Albert, and explains her own roason for trusting him. She minutely describes the position he held in the Royal Household, and other domestics of tho O.mrt ' are mentioned in kindly terms. In all the personal references the Queen invariably uses the plural number, and " Our beloved daughter Beatrice," " Our devoted and gallant John Brown," " Our beloved uncle, the Emperor of Germany," " Our deoply-lamenteii danghtor Alice," receive frequent aUuiions. There is scant .reference to thePiince of Wales—once only, in fact, does she speak of him at any leng'h. This was on the oocasion of his severe illneis from typhoid fever. Tho Queen makes Ion? comments on political events, and gives many opini.iin on .men ami the times. She often expresses an especially high estimate »f Lcrd Beaconsfield, and diacbaes liis view.n on the results of tho general election of 1880, and also Ins ideas of the foreign situation about the lime of his death. In Her Majesty's manifest preference for the ideas of the departed statesmen there ut an obvious implication of a criticism of tho policy of Mr Gladstone. In another pan of the buok the Queen givos an account of the growth of friendship botweon herself and the EmpressEugenie after the fall of Napoleon. She professes to hold the character of Mapoleon, especially under misfortune, in very high estimation. The book, as a whole, refers less tp the Queen's domestic life than was anticipated, whi'e it has vastly moro comments than were expected on ilie social and political events of the porind. The first edition nuiuhors 10,000 cupiw. A Trench odition, l.y Marie Drousart, is announced for speedy publication. ■ English Radical papers make light of the book. The wholo of the original edition was eold on the day of publication, and it was announced a second would be ready by the the end of the month.