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Important Historical Books for the Young _Makers of England Series_
_In the Days of Alfred the Great_ Cloth. Illustrated. _Net_ $1.00
_In the Days of William the Conqueror_ Cloth. Illustrated. _Net_ $1.00
_In the Days of Queen Elizabeth_ Cloth. Illustrated. _Net_ $1.00
_In the Days of Queen Victoria_ Cloth. Illustrated. _Net_ $1.00
_The Story of the Cid Young People_ Cloth. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy. $1.25
[Illustration: Her Majesty the Queen in her state robes. (_From painting by Alfred F. Chalon, R.A., 1838._)]
AUTHOR OF "IN THE DAYS OF ALFRED THE GREAT," "IN THE DAYS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR," "IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH," ETC.
_ILLUSTRATED FROM FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS_
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY LEE AND SHEPARD _All rights reserved_
To her own people Queen Victoria was England itself, the emblem of the realm and of the empire. To millions who were not her people the words "the Queen" do not bring even yet the thought of the well-beloved woman who now shares the English throne, but rather of her who for nearly sixty-four years wore the crown of Great Britain and gave freely to her country of the gift that was in her.
Other women have been controlled by devotion to duty, other women have been moved to action by readiness of sympathy, but few have united so harmoniously a strong determination to do the right with a never-failing gentleness, a childlike sympathy with unyielding strength of purpose.
Happy is the realm that can count on the list of its sovereigns one whose career was so strongly marked by unfaltering faithfulness, by honesty of aim, and by statesmanlike wisdom of action.
Her Majesty the Queen in her state robes. (_From painting by Alfred E. Chalon, R.A., 1838_) _Frontispiece_
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria (_From painting by Sir W. Beechey, R.A._) 16
The Princess Victoria at the age of eleven 46
The coronation of Queen Victoria. (_From painting by Sir George Hayter_) 110
Albert, Prince Consort, in the uniform of a field marshal 136
The Queen in 1845. (_From a painting by John Partridge_) 158
Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; Victoria, Princess Royal; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; Prince Alfred; Princess Alice; Princess Helena. (_From a painting by F. Winterhalter, 1848_) 188