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A Review.

for speculation whether , if Lord Raglan had been in command of the army at home , and Lord Hardinge in command of the army abroad , things might not have turned out somewhat better than they did . In the great war between Prussia and Austria in 1866 if Field-Marshal von

, Benedek had been in Italy and the Archduke Albert and Field-Marshal Johns in Bohemia , the struggle would have been more equal , though we do not think that anything could have compensated for the overpowering superiority of

the needle guns . The great secret of public life , and we may say private , is to get " the ri ght man into the right place , " and none can doubt who read these lifelike pages how gracefully Prince Albert always sought to make public appointments on public grounds alone .

We well remember Sir Robert Peel ' s death , and we find this tribute to him in a letter to the Duchess-Dowager of Saxe Oobourg from Prince Albert : — " Sir Robert Peel is to be buried to-day . The feeling in the country is absolutely not to be described . We have lost our

truest friend and trustiest counsellor , the Throne its most valiant defender , the country its most open-minded and greatest statesman . " It is well known that the Queen had to complain of Lord Palmerston ' s way of doing business , and the following note of

Prince Albert relates to one of those incidents which , to say the least , did not display Lord Palmerston ' s character in the most favourable light , as his conduct is alike petty and unworthy of a great statesmanand unwarrantable towards a lad

, y and a Queen : — " My dear Lord John , —Both the Queen and myself are exceedingly sorry at the news your letter contained . We are not surprised , however , that Lord Palmerston ' s mode of doing business should not be

borne by the susceptible French Government with the same good humour and forbearance as by his colleagues . —Ever yours truly , ALBEET . " We are happy , however , to state that in the latter years of his great political career , Lord Palmerston changed materiall y his estimate of the Prince Consort , as the following narrative attests . Mr . Martin

quotes from a letter addressed to him by Colonel Kemeys Tynte , an intimate per . sonal friend of Lord Palmerston : — "Shortly after the return of Her Majesty and his Royal Highness from their visit to the Emperor and Empress of

the French , I called one morning upon Lord Palmerston at Cambridge House . I congratulated him upon the , in every rerespect , very successful visit of Her Majesty and the Prince to France , remarking , 'What an extraordinary man

the Emperor was . ' ' Yes , ' replied Lord Palmerston , 'he is ; but we have a far greater and more extraordinary man nearer home . ' Lord Palmerston paused ; and I said , ' the Prince Consort ? ' ' Certainly , ' he replied ; ' the Prince would not

have considered it ri ght to have obtained a throne as the Emperor has done ; but , in regard to the possession of the soundest judgment , the highest intellect , and the most exalted qualities of mind , he is far superior to the Emperor . Till my present

position "—he was then Premier—" gave me so many opportunities of seeing his Royal Highness , I had no idea of his possessing such eminent qualities as he has ; and how fortunate it has been for the country that the Queen married such a Prince . "

The latter part of the volume deals with the period just preceding the Crimean War , and gives a glimpse of the course of diplomacy prior to the actual declaration of war . A comparison of the position of affairs then and now is full of suggestion , Writing in September , 1853 , the Prince

says : — "The Divan has become fanaticall y warlike and headstrong . The worst symptom of all is the danger to which Turkish fanaticism has already given rise in Constantinople . Our fleet is under orders to run in there should the lives of the

Christian population or of the Sultan himself be in danger . The greater the tumult the better are the Russians pleased . " It was at this period , while war with Russia was pending , that the Prince became the object of persistent attack

through the columns of certain journals that accused him of unconstitutional intermeddling in foreign affairs . It was said that " our foreign policy was mainly directed b y the Prince Consort , " and that

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Untitled Article 1
Monthly Masonic Sumnary. Article 2
SOME FURTHER REMARKS ON THE EXTRACTS FROM THE SHEFFIELD CHAPTER OF PARADISE MINUTE BOOKS.* Article 3
FATHER FOY ON SECRET SOCIETIES. Article 5
PRINCE BOLTIKOFF: Article 12
A VOICE IN NATURE. Article 16
"THE ALBURY MS."AN ANALYSIS. Article 18
AN OLD, OLD STORY. Article 22
TWO SIDES. Article 24
SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR PEACEFUL SOLUTION. Article 26
THE WOMEN OF OUR TIME. Article 30
GERARD MONTAGU; Article 32
THE ENCHANTED ISLE OF THE SEA. Article 35
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Article 37
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR. Article 39
RETURN OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Article 40
A MEMORY. Article 41
DURHAM CATHEDRAL. Article 42
TRIFLES. Article 45
OLD GREGORY'S GHOST: Article 45
FURNESS ABBEY. Article 49
THE DAYS TO COME. Article 50
GRUMBLE NOT, BROTHER. Article 51
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 51
A Review. Article 54
FREEMASONRY! Article 59
POETS' CORNER. Article 59
PARIS RESTAURANTS. Article 63
MASONIC CENTENNIAL SONG. Article 65
THE MASONIC PHILOSOPHY. Article 65
FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE. Article 67
LOST. Article 70
AN ESSAY ON EPITAPHS. Article 71
A PARABLE. Article 74
ADDRESS OF P.G.M. BRO. HON. RICHARD VAUX, AT CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN UNION LODGE. Article 75
SHORT IS THE WAY. Article 76
ADDRESS OF THE GRAND MASTER, J. H. GRAHAM, L.L.D., &c. Article 77
A PAGE FROM LIFE'S BOOK. Article 81
Correspondence. Article 82
REUNION. Article 85
ADDRESS OF THE V. H. AND E. SIR KT. COL. W. J. B. MACLEOD MOORE, OF THE GRAND CROSS OF THE TEMPLE, GRAND PRIOR OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, Article 86
MASONRY EVERYWHERE. Article 93
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. Article 93
ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME. Article 97
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A Review.

for speculation whether , if Lord Raglan had been in command of the army at home , and Lord Hardinge in command of the army abroad , things might not have turned out somewhat better than they did . In the great war between Prussia and Austria in 1866 if Field-Marshal von

, Benedek had been in Italy and the Archduke Albert and Field-Marshal Johns in Bohemia , the struggle would have been more equal , though we do not think that anything could have compensated for the overpowering superiority of

the needle guns . The great secret of public life , and we may say private , is to get " the ri ght man into the right place , " and none can doubt who read these lifelike pages how gracefully Prince Albert always sought to make public appointments on public grounds alone .

We well remember Sir Robert Peel ' s death , and we find this tribute to him in a letter to the Duchess-Dowager of Saxe Oobourg from Prince Albert : — " Sir Robert Peel is to be buried to-day . The feeling in the country is absolutely not to be described . We have lost our

truest friend and trustiest counsellor , the Throne its most valiant defender , the country its most open-minded and greatest statesman . " It is well known that the Queen had to complain of Lord Palmerston ' s way of doing business , and the following note of

Prince Albert relates to one of those incidents which , to say the least , did not display Lord Palmerston ' s character in the most favourable light , as his conduct is alike petty and unworthy of a great statesmanand unwarrantable towards a lad

, y and a Queen : — " My dear Lord John , —Both the Queen and myself are exceedingly sorry at the news your letter contained . We are not surprised , however , that Lord Palmerston ' s mode of doing business should not be

borne by the susceptible French Government with the same good humour and forbearance as by his colleagues . —Ever yours truly , ALBEET . " We are happy , however , to state that in the latter years of his great political career , Lord Palmerston changed materiall y his estimate of the Prince Consort , as the following narrative attests . Mr . Martin

quotes from a letter addressed to him by Colonel Kemeys Tynte , an intimate per . sonal friend of Lord Palmerston : — "Shortly after the return of Her Majesty and his Royal Highness from their visit to the Emperor and Empress of

the French , I called one morning upon Lord Palmerston at Cambridge House . I congratulated him upon the , in every rerespect , very successful visit of Her Majesty and the Prince to France , remarking , 'What an extraordinary man

the Emperor was . ' ' Yes , ' replied Lord Palmerston , 'he is ; but we have a far greater and more extraordinary man nearer home . ' Lord Palmerston paused ; and I said , ' the Prince Consort ? ' ' Certainly , ' he replied ; ' the Prince would not

have considered it ri ght to have obtained a throne as the Emperor has done ; but , in regard to the possession of the soundest judgment , the highest intellect , and the most exalted qualities of mind , he is far superior to the Emperor . Till my present

position "—he was then Premier—" gave me so many opportunities of seeing his Royal Highness , I had no idea of his possessing such eminent qualities as he has ; and how fortunate it has been for the country that the Queen married such a Prince . "

The latter part of the volume deals with the period just preceding the Crimean War , and gives a glimpse of the course of diplomacy prior to the actual declaration of war . A comparison of the position of affairs then and now is full of suggestion , Writing in September , 1853 , the Prince

says : — "The Divan has become fanaticall y warlike and headstrong . The worst symptom of all is the danger to which Turkish fanaticism has already given rise in Constantinople . Our fleet is under orders to run in there should the lives of the

Christian population or of the Sultan himself be in danger . The greater the tumult the better are the Russians pleased . " It was at this period , while war with Russia was pending , that the Prince became the object of persistent attack

through the columns of certain journals that accused him of unconstitutional intermeddling in foreign affairs . It was said that " our foreign policy was mainly directed b y the Prince Consort , " and that

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