St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-05
QUEEN WIGS BOOK
A Few Extracts from the Book About
Brown.
A truer, nobler, trustier heart,
More loyal and more loving never
Beat within a human breast.

had been very fairly set forth in the COM
ments sent from London by cable. 1t is al
most entirely devoted to descriptions of little
incidents in the Queens daily routine OF
| life, and to Brown. Pfominedce is given to the
upsetting of her carriage by careless driver,
On the road from Altnaguthasach
| 1t was quite dark when we left, but all the
lamps were lit as usual; from the first, how
ever, Smith, who was driving, seemed to be
| quite confused. Suddenly, about two miles
| from Altnagiuthasach, and about twenty
| minutes after he had started, the carriage be-
| gan to turn upon one side; we called out:
whats the matter?" There was pause,
during which Alice said: "We are upset
ting.''
In another moment-during which had
time to reflect whether we should be killed or
not, and though there were still things had
not settled and wanted to do-the carriage
turned over on its side and we were all pre-
cipitated to the ground! l came down very
hard, with my face upon the ground, near
the carriage, the horses both on the ground,
and Brown calling out in despair: ''The
Lord Almighty have mercy on US! Who did
| ever see the like of this before? I thought
you were all killed.
The queens face was good deal bruised
and swollen and her right thumb was excess
| lively painful and much swollen. Smith was
| sent back for assistance, Brown in the mean
| while being "indefatigable in his attention
| and care" Almost directly after the incident
| happened 81 said to Alice 1t was terrible not
to be able to tell it to my dearest Albert" to
| which the princess answered: "But he knows
it all, and am sure he watched over US"
''It was not cold,' the queen says, '!and 1
remembered from the first what my beloved
one had always said to me, namely, to make
| the best of what could not be altered.'' How
ever, except for Smith, the accident had no
serious consequences. "People were fool
ishly alarmed when We got upstairs, and
made a great fuss. I took only little soup
and fish in my room and had my head ban
| daged."
In August, 1867, the queen visited Floors
and the Scotch border country. Kelso is
described as being very picturesque. Here
she was the guest of the Duke of Buccleuch,
whose house is admired greatly:
| The view from the windows is beautiful.
| The distant Cheviots range, with great deal
of wood, Kelso, embosomed in rich woods,
with the bridge and the Tweed flowing be-
meath natural grass terraces which go down
| to it. Very fine. 1t reminds me little of
On the 18th of September, 1877, the queen
! left Balmoral for an expedition to Loeb
| Maree, which proved most delightful. Here
are one or two passages, which show how the
| time was spent:
Reading; writing. Beatrice's room is
very pretty one, but very hot, being over the
kitchen. Browns, just opposite, also very
nice and not hot, but smaller. After dinner
| the Duchess of Boxburghe read a little out of
| the newspapers.
The midges are dreadful and you cannot
stand moment without being stung. In at
| twenty minutes to l. ] remained sketching
| the lovely views from the windows in the
| dining room and then sketched the beauti-
| full mountain also.
Even here, although the children were
close at hand, the feeling of lonliness when
l saw no room for my darling and felt I was
| indeed alone and widow overcame me very
| sadly! 1t was the first time had gone in
this way on Il visit dixie in former times),
| and l thought SO much Of all dearest Albert
| would have done and said and how he wan
dered about everywhere, admired everything,
looked at everythfng-and now! Oh! must
| it ever, ever be so!
| During this visit the queen made an expo
dition to Melrose; "most picturesque and
surrounded by woods and hills
We drove straightup to the abbey = x
| and walked about the ruins, which are,
indeed, very fine, and some of the archi-
lecture and carving in beautiful preservation.
Most truly does Walter Scott say:
II thou would'st view fair Merose Alright
| Go visit it by the pale moonlight
1t looks very ghostlike, and reminds me
| little of Hollywood chapel. x Another
| twenty minutes or half hour brought us to
Abbotsford, the well known residence of
Sir Walter Scott 1t lies low and looks rather
| gloomy. They showed us the part
of the house in which Sir Walter lived
and all his roons-his drawing room
with the same furniture and carpet, the libra
~ where we saw his MS. of "Ivanhoe" and
| several others of his novels and poems in
beautiful handwriting with hardly any era
| sures, and other relies which Sir Walter had
himself collected. Then his study, small
dark room, with little turret, in which is
bust in bronze done from a cast taken after
death of Sir Walter. In his study we saw his
journal, in which Mr.. Hope Scott asked me
to write my name (Which l felt it presump-
ton in me to do), as also the others. We
went through some passages into two or three
aooms where were collected fine specimens
are Sir Walters last clothes. We ended by
going into the dining-room, in which Sir
| Walter Scott died, where we took tea
| In September 1869, the queen visited In
vertrossachs, and the entry in the journal for
the 1st is as follows:
| We gotup at 7:30, breakfasted at s, and at
| $50 left Balmoral with Louise, Beatrice and
Jane Churchill Brown is always, unless
| mention to the contrary, on the box) for Bal
| later.
We quote the following passage, one of the
many in which the queen describes the beau
tiful scenery of the district:
Hardly creature did we meet, End we
passed merely a few pretty gentiemen's
places, OF very poor cottages with simple
! women and barefooted, long-haired lassies
and children, quiet and unassuming old men
| and laborers. This solitude, the romance and
wild loveliness OF everything here, the absence
of hotels and beggars, the independent sim
pie people, who all speak Gaelic here, all make
| beloved Scotland the proudest, finest coun-
| try in the world. Then there is that beauti-
| full heather, which you do not see elsewhere.
prefer it greatly to Switzerland, magnifi-
cent and glorions as the scenery of that
country is.
On Wednesday, Sept. she writes
| A very bad night from violent attack of
| neuralgia in my leg. / only got up after
and could hardly walk OF stand, but was 9TH
erwise not i'll. took little, but very little,
breakfast alone. I remained at home read
| ing, writing and resting on the sofa or in an
| armchair.
The Queen was greatly impressed by the
| communion service as it is celebrated in the
Scotch Kirk, and in an entry in the journal
for Nov. 10, 1871, says:
| It Was all 50 truly earns est and No aaeo-;.