New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-11

at an angle of the garden appertaining TO his
house: upheld by what seem to be huge slabs OF
stone four square: and from this fortress-like
pedestal gazing steadfasty upon the palace OF
his roval mistress The artist of him was no less
n personacc than Mr. Bochm. by common consent
first of living English sculptors; not less SO be-
cause he happens to he German by birth: rs Is
the Sovereign herself If not by birth yet by direct
unhrJkcn descent, which does not prevent her
people from believing her to be quite En2Hsh.
To approach Balmoral without seeing this bronze
colossal Brown is impossible: he is In the place
and of it, and if not quite at the entrance gate
so near that he towers above all corners as they
arrive as u were, the presiding genius OF the
Queens household, now as when IN the ticsh Inc
house is still shown John Browns house,
whether kept empty in honor OF him and his names,
know not. Other monuments TO his memory rise
higher still highest of all, great cairn OF piled
stones On the brow Of a mountain that looks
down on the scene Of his earthly triumphs;
higher, think. and higher piled than any other,
save that which was raised by the same pious
hand to the late Prince Consort. No one has
ever succeeded to Brown. There is still
Queens gile, but he inheritS only the shade of
great name, and the more humble of the great
mans duties.
do not know whether may venture to
repeat in print the coloquial famliarities which
are to be heard in the mouths of some OF Her
Majesty's lieges on Deeside. You will easily
recognize her when referred to as Her Most
Gracious" or you may, without at first quite
understanding who is meant, hear her spoken
of as The Widow This latter title is, so
far as / know, confined to Deeside, but heard
it there years ago and have heard it more re-
1. &c
neighborhood more than most others partly for
its singular and admirable beauty, partly also
out of that enthusiasm of loyalty which is
characteristic of the tourist. He gazes with equal
rapture on the majesty of the many mountains
about him, and on the sham Gothic towers of
Balmoral which living majesty inhabits. He
has perhaps a faint hope that he may the
Queen. l doubt whether he ever does The
Queen drives daily, but till
in the afternoon and then for the most part in
her her neighbors forests, and not
the high-road. And the etiquette of Dceside is
peculiar Whoever may by chance meet the
Queen on these excursions will do well to behave
if he had not met her, nor seen her, nor let
her see him. He will get behind rock or
tree, or otherwise as best he may make himself
invisible, and act as if he had neither eyes TO
see nor ears to hear Such is Her Majcstys
wish: perfectly understood OF these who live in
her vicinity, and studiously obeyed. You may be
going TO dine at the Castle that evening; reason
the more why you should sink into the earth
sooner than put Her Majesty under compusion
to recognize your existence when her soul longs
for solitude.
If, the other hand, the passcr be neither
tourist nor of such position as may entitle him
to be known, but gille, groom or laborer, the
chances arc that, upon signal from the carriage
the Positions will pull up their four smoking
ponies, and the Queen Will ask q kindly qucs-
ton two Of the about himself and his
family. Her Majesty has a strong liking for the
masses. AS for the classes, what is difference
of rank station little more or little less to
one who deems herself UNNECESSARILY above the
highest of her subjects? If all stories be true,
she denotes her dislike Of casual intercourse with
them in a singular manner. If she drives over,
as she sometimes does, to take tea with one of
her neighbors word is sent in advance. Then
if the neighbor selected for this hoGor happens
TO have guests staying in the house. 1T is under
stood that the guests do not appear unless their
presence, the presence of some one or more
among them, be commanded by Her Majesty.
Whether they put away in cupboards or
what happens TO them l cannot guess; nor what
would happen should one of them by chance
appear unbidden G. w. S.