From a Hew Book QUEEN ANNE IS DEAD

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 123, 18 February 1935, Page 7

From a Hew Book QUEEN ANNE IS DEAD

The windows were darkened in Kensington. Silence lay heavy in the courtyard, and in the long suites of dark-panelled chambers through which the life of a kingdom had so lately pulsed. The gate had shut on the last coach rumbling off through'the Heids of St. James’s, to be in time for the Proclamation. The awed and tearful waiting women heard from afar away the shout of an immense multitude hailing the successor, and the salvoes ? of cannon proclaiming the triumph of'English liberty, religion and law. These things were well, and the woman lying on the great bed had, by her fifty years of dutiful, painful, harried life, and her heart so “wholly English,” helped much to bring them about. But she was tired and would sleep. Not, like royal Elizabeth, contending to the last with death as if he. too, had been by right her subject. Not, like the King who had died twelve years before in this same palace, haunted to the last by the thought of great schemes for the salvation of Europe that he must needs relinquish. Those great schemes had been accomplished in the name and by the choice of this simple woman, because she had known how to choose her friends. But then clouds had descended qnd friendship had turned sour. Left to her own guidance—for her wellbeloved husband, too, had died —she had chosen new friends and given her people peace. Then the clouds had descended again and with weakening body and brain she had failed to see through them into any future she de- . sired. All she longed for was to be at rest, and now, as always, she had her way. There lay the Queen of Great Britain, the last Stuart to rule the island, and, for all her simplicity, the wisest - and most triumphant of her race.— “ England Under Queen Anne,” by Gebrge Macaulay Trevelyan. * NAME THE STONES What names of stones are hidden in the following jumbled words? 1. I Saul, zip all; 2, Harp, ye cross! 8, Goy clad hen; 4, Faro pile; 5,0, do nip bugler-boy! Answer to Saturday’s Puzzle 1, Transylvanian Alps; 2, Finsteraahorn; 3, Sierra Nevada; 4, Popocatepetl; 5, Godwin-Austen; 6, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks; 7, Appalachians.