. The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 : an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII. \.R I. Her Life and Empire. By the Marquis of Lome,, now his Grace the Duke of .\rgyll. London: Eyre and Spottis-vvoode, 1901. 13 The Boyhood ot a Great King Imperial Majesty the Empress Frederick) and aseries of etchings and etched portraits (includingseveral of the two elder royal children) executedby the Queen and Prince Albert in the earlier daysof their happy married life, but several letterswritten by the Queen, the Duchess of Kent, andQueen Adelaide to them between the yea
. The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 : an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII. \.R I. Her Life and Empire. By the Marquis of Lome,, now his Grace the Duke of .\rgyll. London: Eyre and Spottis-vvoode, 1901. 13 The Boyhood ot a Great King Imperial Majesty the Empress Frederick) and aseries of etchings and etched portraits (includingseveral of the two elder royal children) executedby the Queen and Prince Albert in the earlier daysof their happy married life, but several letterswritten by the Queen, the Duchess of Kent, andQueen Adelaide to them between the years 1846and 1850, and by the Princess Royal to her brotherthe Prince of Wales. In addition to these etchingsand letters (all of them of undoubted authenticity)were other items of equal interest, such as transcriptsof the morning and evening prayers used by thePrince of Wales, sheets from the copy-books of boththe Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred (the lateDuke of Edinburgh) and last, but not least, a cha-racteristic portion of an autograph letter or note ofthe present King which runs as follows : *^:C(«=^. Here, at any rate, we have an early confession offaith under the hand of our present sovereign whichmay console us for the possibility of the oft-repeatedstory of the exclamation of his royal mother, I will be good on seeing the genealogical treeadroitly inserted by Baroness Lehzen in the history-book, being after all apocryphal. There is nothingwhatever in this unique collection which may notbe published without fear of committing an in-discretion. From first to last the letters on bothsides throw a charming light on the happy home- H Death ot the Princess Charlotte life which helped so materially to mould thecharacter of King Edward VII., as well as on thepersonal share taken at all costs alike by mother,father, grandmother, and great-aunt in the firsttraining of the heir to the throne as well as thatof his brothers and sisters. It is difficult to realisethe far-reaching co
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