KING GEORGE AND HIS PEOPLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16050, 16 October 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

KING GEORGE AND HIS PEOPLE.

At home King George and his Queen' have opened nothing less than an era completely new in the mutual relations of people and Crown. Km- Edward, as a great European gentleman, was concerned to hold himself in close and oonstan.. touch with the leading interests and incidents in continental society and politics. Unaffectedly pious in the ordering of his daily life, King George personifies the strenuous industry, the love of work for duty's sake the self-sacrifice and self-denial of which! 111 things other than details 0 diet he sets a daily example. The old AngloSaxons were remarkable for a patriotism quickened and deepened by a lively faith Of such ancestors the King is* a true lineal descendant. With him, therefore as in the case of his grandmother, Queen victoria, court ceremonies have taken upon them something in the nature of religious rites. Royal interest in the dwellings of the poor and the nursing of the sick was brought into courtly voeue during the last reign. George V. is the first king to have personally visited the mechanics, artisans, and the factorv-men of his realm in the places of their'dailv toil and to have examined the sanitary, social, and religious conditions under which they work as systematically as if he had been trained for a factory'inspecn,. H - S- E6cott ) in the " British Reviewt -