It is of this marvellous tribute, and how it was won, that we should think,--not of this or that foible or shortcoming, for who is without them? Above all, we should think of the heavy, unceasing burden that lay upon brain and heart through a long life, and with how brave and constant yet how meek a spirit it was borne. Then, remembering all this, let us, while we live, cherish in our hearts the name of our departed Queen, and pass it on to those who shall succeed us, as Victoria the Great and Good. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS. FOOTNOTES: [1] He died in May 1874. "Dear M. V. de Weyer's death," Her Majesty wrote to me on the 30th of that month, "is a terrible loss to the Queen, and she has been deeply grieved by it." [2] A translation of Oehlenschlaeger's drama of that name. [3] General Grey's book. [4] A ruby and diamond bracelet. [5] I must have expressed in some letter at this time regret that none of Her Majesty's Ministers had taken the opportunity of explaining the circumstances which had hurt Her Majesty's health, and compelled her to avoid the fatigues of the public appearances which were called for, and which were undoubtedly desirable, if the Queen's health had admitted of their being made. [6] They came with the following note:-- "OSBORNE, _May 3, 1869_. "The Queen sends Mr Martin to-day a volume of the beloved Prince's and her own etchings, which she has had purposely bound for him, and which she hopes he will place in his library, as a trifling recollection of his kindness in carrying out so many of her wishes." [7] _Quarterly Review_ for April 1901: article "Queen Victoria," p. 305. [8] It is of such that Sir Henry Taylor writes in his _Philip van Artevelde_, Act I. Sc. v.:-- "He was one Of that small tally, of the singular few, Who, gifted with predominating powers, Bear yet a temperate will, and keep the peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men." [9] _Denkwuerdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherr's Christian Friedrich v. Stockmar._ Braunschweig, 1872. [10] _Quarterly Review_ for April 1872, p. 386 _et seq._ [11] "Thy dear image I bear within me, and what miniature can come up to that? No need to place one on my table to _remind_ me of _you_." [12] Life of Archbishop Benson, vol. ii. pp. 2 and 561. [13] The allusion is to the lines in the fine passage in the seventh section of that poem, beginning, "Blame not thyself too much":-- "Let woman make herself her own To give or keep, to live and learn, and be All that not harms distinctive womanhood. For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse; could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain; his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference."