Born in London in 1838 and educated at St. Paul's School. He went to Natal in 1859, and entered the Colonial Parliament in 1872; nominated to Executive Council, 1880. Attorney-General, 1893. Prime Minister, Attorney-General, and Minister of Education, 1897.] [Illustration: _From Photo_} {_by H. N. King._ A BLACK V.C. Sergeant W. J. Gordon, 1st West India Regiment, obtained the Victoria Cross for interposing his body and receiving a bullet intended for his superior officer.] It is well that this first great reunion of the Anglo-Saxon race should have taken place on the occasion of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Commemoration. Let us hope that she may live to see another and even greater Jubilee, another gathering together of the scattered members of her Empire! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. [Illustration: THE JUBILEE MEDAL (FULL SIZE).] [Illustration: O King of kings. THE JUBILEE HYMN. APPOINTED TO BE USED IN ALL CHURCHES AND CHAPELS _ON SUNDAY JUNE 20, 1897._ _Written by the late Bishop of Wakefield._ _Set to Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. (Facsimile of the Original MS._) King of kings, Whose reign of old Hath been from everlasting, Before Whose throne their crowns of gold The white-rob'd saints are casting; While all the shining courts on high With Angel songs are ringing, Oh let Thy children venture nigh, Their lowly homage bringing. 2 For every heart, made glad by Thee, With thankful praise is swelling; And every tongue, with joy set free, Its happy theme is telling. Thou hast been mindful of Thine own, And lo! we come confessing-- 'Tis Thou hast dower'd our queenly throne With sixty years of blessing. 3 Oh Royal heart, with wide embrace For all her children yearning! Oh happy realm, such mother-grace With loyal love returning! Where England's flag flies wide unfurl'd, All tyrant wrongs repelling; God make the world a better world For man's brief earthly dwelling! 4 Lead on, O Lord, Thy people still, New grace and wisdom giving, To larger love, and purer will, And nobler heights of living. And, while of all Thy love below They chant the gracious story, Oh teach them first Thy Christ to know, And magnify His glory. _Amen._ _The Portraits of Author and Composer are from Photographs by Window and Grove, London, and Kilpatrick, Belfast._] INDEX _The asterisk (*) indicates an illustration or a footnote to an illustration._ Aberdeen, Lord, *39, 74, *78, 79. Abyssinia, War with, 133. Adelaide, *128. Adelaide, Queen, *30. Aden, *20. Adullam, Cave of, 128. Afghanistan, affairs of, 31, *98, 147, 154-6, 167. Africa, British, 71, *133, *134, 156. Agra, Taj Mahal, *105; mutiny at, *98. Akbar Khan, 32. Alabama Claims, 120. Albany, Duke of. _See_ Leopold, Prince.