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ing into multiplicity and power.

Certainly the task imposed required
| the combination of her own character
| with another Of equal soundness and a
certain subjugation of her by him. A
mistake In this particular would have
been fatal to the destinies of the house.
| Her selection, however. was wise and
| fortunate. Near the close of the sec
end year of her reign, she notified her
| parliament of her purpose in a quaint
address, in which the naivete Of an in
nocent womanhOod was curiously In
terwoven with the imperiousness of
! the youthful queen. She would marry.
She would marry because she was in
, love. She would marry because she
was in love with her cousin, Albert of
! RoseEau She would marry because
the exigencies of the monarchy requir
ed her to marry. She would do her
duty very willingly because she wanted
to do it. The truthfulness OF the girE
| queens paper was as clear as her pur-
| pose was explicit. We may accept it
as an established fact that for once in
human history the exigencies of the dy-
nasty ran in unison with the heart
throb Of the parties. The prince was
three months younger than the queen.
And the result? The result was that
the old house of Hanover became a
Renaissance in the very court where
it had lately flourished and decayed.
The result was that the new house OF
! SaXeCoburg and Gotha came in it's
place. The result was that the young
queen entered the domain of royal
motherhood. Her promises and pros
poets multiplied. The result was that
| the British nation began to admire and
| to love the sovereign. There was no
! king, but the prospect of many kings.
| The result was that heroism, imperso-
mated in the Iron Duke. knelt Loyalty
at the foot of the throne. The result
was that new literature began to
flourish. The Tennysonian muse took
! wing, and the Old idyls and tragedies
! of English history were reborn splen-
didly in Victorian verse. Art got free
again from the filth with which it had
been spattered since the days of the
! Restoration.
Even in the early years of the new
reign the British empire was steadied
on it's course The reform agitations
which had shaken England during the
i reign Of William ". subsidized into new
constitutional habits which the Britons
wore henceforth as easily as their gar
ments. The whole of the fifth decen-
MUM was a period of settlement and
fixation, in which the sediment of war
and civil connection went to the bot
tom and the waves of peace once more
Tapped the chalky cliffs of England.
The young Victoria was happy in all
her fortunes. A princess was born
within the year to bear her mothers
| name and after 48 years to become
for SO days, as the spouse of Der
/ Weise Kaiser, the empress of Germany,
mother of Wilhelm II, The hopes of
the United Kingdom as to the dynasty
were speedily fulfilled. Within the sec
ond year Prince of Wales was born.
and that was NO small matter. Other
prizes and princesses came in pro-
cession, as if all the Kingdoms and
municipalities of Europe were to be
supplied from the loins of SaXe-Co-
burg and Gotha. Already the royal
mother in the first ten wears of her
married life looked down on retinue.
She might have said, as the prophetic
| Jacob said Of Cad "a troop cometh."
The prince Consort was model lord.
At the banquet of the Mayor Of Lon
don, in March of 1851, Albert concluded
his address with a suggestion for an
international exhibition of arts and in
dustries. Hence sprang the Crystal
palace and the first great exposition Of
its kind in the world. Keen was the
anxiety at Windsor for the success
Of the enterprise
The Crystal palace arose and shone
in splendcr. The duty Of the formal
opening was assigned to Prince Albert.
! The young queen, in the prime of her
womanhood. 80 years of age and still
in love went proudly with her husband
to the scene. She gives a glowing ac-
count Of what was done. In her diary
she says: Il shall ever be proud for
my beloved Albert and my country.
A little rain fell Just as we
started, but before we came near the
/ Crystal palace the sun shone and
cleaned upon the gigantic edifice upon
! which the flags Ct all nations were fly
ing. The sight as one came to the mid
ole was magical-sC vast, so glorious,
so touching! The tremendous
cheers. the joy expressed in every face.
the immensely of the building the
mixture of palms, flowers. trees,
statues, fountains; the organ, with the
200 instruments, ard 600 voices which
sounded like nothing. and my beloved
| husband. the author of this peace fes-
tival which united the industry of all
nations Of the earth-all this was NOV
ing indeed. and it was and is a day to
live forever Even so, young queen,
In the retrospect we begrudge you
nothing of that days exuDerance.
After Hyde park the next crisis with
Victoria was the Crimean war. There
was time during the historical scrim-
mage in Asia when her majesty was
greatly distressed. 1t was in the win
ter Of lS54-5, when Florence Nightin-
gale, angel of the bivouac and hospital.
with her 81 assistants, was ministering
to the sick and wounded after Balak-
lava, that the queens heart was wrung.
She wrote letter in mingled grief and
reproof to Lord Raglan. saying:
The sad privations CT the army. the
bad weather and the constant sickness
are causes of the deepest concern to the
queen and prince. The drawer cur no.
bic troops are, the more patiently and
| heroically they bear all their trials and
sufferings, the more miserable We feel
at their long continuance. The queen
trusts that Lord Raglan will be very
! strict in seeing. that no unnecessary
privations are incurred by any negli-
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