The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-18
The Love Life OF Queen vicsor;a.

The HERALD called immediate attention to
the unique work in which Queen Victoria
lately made her FIRST appearance as a royal
author, and surprised che world by an extraor-
binary revelation of her "love life.r Six thou
1a1d copies of the arst volume Of this work
have already been sold. and q second edition
is in press. No more remarkable production
has appeared since Solomon's Songs. the Had
and the Odyssey, and the Metamorphoses of
Ovid. The sovereign OF mighty empire, on
which the sun never sets and is always rising.
aud the mother of as many children as John
Rogers wife (without counting the mythical
zone at the breast'D, has prepared, during her
comparative retirement from her public duties,
an photographed narrative which surpasses
in curious interest all the memorials of@burning
Sappho, who loved and sang in the isles OF
Greece, and finally leaped from the Leucadian
rock of Zenobia, the naughty, but not heart
less Queen OF Palmyra; of Cesar's and An
tony's Cleopatra; of Aspasia and her court of
Athenian philosophers, orators and statesmen !;
of Hypatia, Cyrilis victim, and Charles Kings
ley's heroine; of Leicester's Elizabeth; of
of Abclard's Heloise in short, of all other
iliustrious Rousseaus of tie feminine gender
tnat have ever lived and loved
Ofall biographies and photographs, Queen
victoras book will be most widely read and
admired, sneercd at and ridiculed. Even a
loyal English reviewer parses in the midst Of
his eulogies upon it to admit that we want
the mellowing air of time and space in which
to read such story as that of Queen Victoria
and her cousin.- "When," he says, "Queen
Victoria shall have bccorae to her people what
Elizabeth il, the chief light of her age,
the central point of human interest
in her reign-whcn all the triffes OF
our generation are dispersed into air and
only the great realities are left in recollec-
tion-the tale Of her love, her happiness, her
loss, her sorrow, will be the favoritc theme OF
all poets and story iellers." And, he adds,
"the millions who viii fondly dwell upon this
story of human heart will treat with scorn
those cynics and seekers who, in our day, fail
to see the beauty of a life which exalts human
nature above fashionable society and raises
the Woman high above the Queen" Mean
| while, as this enthusiastic reviewer admits,
'the mellowing air OF time and space Is
wanting, and the cynics Of aris!ocratc and
fashionable society in Great Britain will not
refrain from laughing, at least in their sleeve,
at this extraordinary story Of royal love lie.
| But millions of women, from fifteen to thirty
| five years Of age, in tho Middle and lower
classes will pore and ponder and weep over y,
and adopt it as their text book AS such, II
bids fair TO have larger circulation than any
other book, except King James version OF the
Holy Bible. To most readers in this transatlan.
tic republic, however, it seems like nothing that
has hold on The present time, with Its practi-
cal rcalities, but rather like resurrection Of
some old romance that has been lying buried
! apd 40 forgotten rubbish Of tho Middle Ages