The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-06 00:00:00

&Ma - ezdar.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, CASTLE, Thursday.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Princess Helena and Princess Louise,
went to Aldershot Camp this morning, attended by
Lady Waterpark, the Hon. Mary Lascelles, Lieu-
tenant General Hon. C. Grey, and Major-General
Hon. A. N. Hood, and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat
(Equerries in Waiting).
Her Majesty travelled in a carriage and four,
and was escorted by detachments of the Royal
Horse Guards, the Bth Hussars, and 17th Lancers
to the South Camp, where her Majesty was received
by Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir James Yorke
Scarlett, K.C.8., and his staff. The Queen then
drove to the Prince Consort's library and afterwards
to the gymnasium, and thence to the Pavilion,
where her Majesty took luncheon.
Shortly before 3 o'clock her Majesty proceeded to
the North Camp, accompanied by his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, and the Adjutant-
General and the Quarter-Master-General, with their
staffs, and was there received by the troops with a
Royal salute.
The 89th Regiment formed in front of the line,
commanded by Colonel Boyle, and received from the
Queen new colours, in lieu of those which her Ma-
jesty gave to the Regiment as Princess Victoria at
Plymouth in the year 1833, her Majesty at the same
time addressing the troops in a few words.
The regiment then marched past her Majesty,
and also the other troops in the camp.
The Queen then left the camp, and returned to
Windsor Castle, stopping on her way at Bagshot
to pay Sir James Clark a visit.

LITERATURE.

Books of Travel.

Although the season for voyages and travels has
not yet arrived, books of travel are apparently
always in season. We have a group of such plea-
sant chronicles now before us, which, like the carpet
of Fortunatus, are capable of transporting us at will
from one extremity of the globe to the other. The
first which, from its sacred theme, attracts our no-
tice, is a brief but most interesting glimpse at Jeru-
salem as it is, by Albert Rhodes, United States Con-
sul at Jerusalem (Maxwell and Co.). With a reve-
rent spirit and observing eye the American spectator
has trodden the sacred ground of the holy places,
and his descriptions are evidently very accurate and
singularly interesting. Over the Pyrenees into Spain,
by Mary Eyre (Bentley), gives a delightful narra-
tive by the authoress of a " Lady's Walks in the
South of France," of her adventures in the Spanish
Peninsula. Her style is so simple and charming that
we cannot wonder at the success of the former work
of this writer. It is dedicated to a number of dear
friends in a form singular enough for the dedication
of a book—a round-robin ! Travelling Sketches, by
Anthony Trollope (Chapman and Hall), written in
the easy, almost careless, style of that indefatigable
book-maker, gives us an account of " The family
that goes abroad because it's the thing to do," "The
Alpine Club-house," " The Unprotected Female
Tourist" (like the authoress of the volume above-
mentioned), and other amusing sketches. More
earnest in its interest is the next volume that
we take up—Castaway on the Auckland isles, from
the journals of Captain Thomas Musgrave
(Lockwood and Co.)--which little book, edited
by John Shillington, the author of " Arctic
Discovery," gives an interesting narrative
of the wreck of the Grafton and the escape of the
crew after twenty months suffering, together with
an account of the Auckland Islands. The Texan
Rifle Hunter, by ;Captain Flack, " the Ranger"
(Maxwell and Co.), gives an interesting account of
field sports on the Prairie, with a description of
the mustang, or wild horse, with panther hunting,
cougar hunting, bear hunting, &c. Our Summer
in the Hartz Forest, by a Scotch family (Edmonston
and Douglas), gives in a series of letters a very homely,
natural account of family enjoyments,perils, and per-
plexities during a summer residence in the Hartz
forest. The locality is one seldom described, and the

mode of description possesses the charm of origina-
lity. Of a more serious character is a protest against
The Confederation of British North America, by
E. C. Bolton and H. H. Webster, of the Royal
Artillery (Chapman and Hall). The writers hay-

ing spent many years in America regard them-
selves as qualified to express their dissent to the
proposed scheme. Up the Elbe and on the Nor-
way, by Mr. Nihil (Cassell, Fetter, and Galpin),
records in a lively and humorous manner the vaca-
tion trip up the Elbe, of Mr. Nullus and Mr.
Nullus, jun., and Mr. Nihil, of the Waste Paper-
office, the latter gentleman being the historian of
the party. Years Ago, by Mrs. Henry Lynch
(Jarrold and Sons), is interesting at the present
moment, as being a tale of West Indian domestic life
in the eighteenth century, written before the recent
outbreak in Jamaica. Another interesting record of
the past, " France on the Eve of the Great Revolu-
tion," consists of " Notes on France, Holland, and
the Netherlands a Century Ago," by Admiral Sir
George Collier, edited by his granddaughter, Mrs.
Charles Tennant (Bentley). These memorials are
singularly interesting, as affording a faithful picture
of Paris a century back. The editor, in a foot-note,
justly speaks of the contrast presented by the Paris
of the present day with its vast improvements.
" So that," adds the writer, " the present Emperor
may, with much truth, be designated Napoleon the
Magnificent !"