THE QUEEN'S HEAD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2457, 20 November 1886, Page 2

THE QUEEN'S HEAD.

There may be a vast number of people who think that it is high time for a new Imperial coinage to bo issued seeing that the Queen's head, as impressed on coin 3 current in 1886, is that of a comely young damsel who was bom in the year 1819, and who ascended the throne in 1837. On the othor hand there may be a considerable number of people, principally belonging to the "fogey" class—who prefer to see the head of a young girl ratherthan that of a venerable matron on the tew sovereigns or shillings which fchoy may possess. I belong to that class myself. I am an old fogey, and I like to Bee on my money and postage stamps the same Queon's head I used to see when 1 was a little boy. Why should the effigy be changed ? There are ohe interests of historic truth, to be considered, I suppose. Bother historic qruth! This world would have come down to a standstill without the infusion, now and again, of a little sentiment into its weary, dreary, hard-and-fast, eut-and-dried, humdrum procedure; and to wish for the continuance of tho original profile of Victoria,. Empress and Quedn, is to the fogeys a matter of pure sentimont. " Our Young Queen, and our old Institutions I" is a party cry imagined in " Coningsby"; arid a very good cry too. Hester Thrale was alwayfl young and pretty to Dr Johnston. So is the Queen-to the fogeys.—6. A, Sala, in the Illustrated London News.