Many consolations have been vouchsafed by Heaven to the widowed Queen. Since she lost her great stay and support her realm has for the most part been prosperous and contented. Though environed by many troubles, and though the clang of battle has shaken the world, the dove of peace has benignantly hovered o'er Britain. Much advance has been made in those fields of social, moral, political, and educational improvement which were so dear to Albert's heart, as they have always been to her own. And shortly before the period when these pages are first given to the public, the political progress of the nation has received a great stimulus, such as is given in a people's history only at rare and long intervals. Her children grow up from youth to maturity, and from maturity to maternity and paternity, without a slur upon their fair names, and are, with those to whom the elder of them have united themselves in wedlock, all that a proud mother's heart could wish. God has stricken her; but He has proved also an Infinite Healer and Solacer. Ours be it to add to the ordinary motives of patriotism, those more tender and touching influences which arise from the recollection that our Queen is now, as said that Queen of England whose subjects were Shakespeare and Bacon, Spenser and Sidney--"Married to her People." THE END. CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN, BELLE SAUVAGE WORKS, LONDON, E.C. CASSELL'S REPRESENTATIVE BIOGRAPHIES. VOL. I. _Life of John Bright_ 50 cents. VOL. II. _Life of W. E. Gladstone_ 50 cents. VOL. III. _Life of B. Disraeli_ 50 cents. VOL. IV. _Life of Queen Victoria_ 75 cents. OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION. FELT & DILLINGHAM, 455, BROOME STREET, NEW YORK. LIST OF JUVENILE BOOKS KEPT ON SALE BY FELT & DILLINGHAM, 455, BROOME STREET, NEW YORK. _Little Songs for Me to Sing._ Illustrated by J. E. Millais, R. A.; with Music composed expressly for the Work by Henry Leslie. Square 16mo $2 75 _The Child's Garland of Little Poems_; Rhymes for Little People. With Exquisite Illustrative Borders by Giacomelli. Square 8vo, cloth gilt $3 00 _Bright Thoughts for the Little Ones._ Twenty-seven Original Drawings by Procter. With Prose and Verse by GRANDMAMMA. Square 8vo, cloth gilt $3 00 _Cassell's Picture Book for the Nursery._ Royal 4to size, full of Illustrations, with appropriate Text for Young Children. Bound in embellished boards $2 00 Bound in cloth, with coloured centre-piece $2 50 The same with coloured pictures $4 00 _Dame Dingle's Fairy Tales for Good Children._ Handsomely bound in cloth, with gilt edges $2 00 _Aesop's Fables, in Words of One Syllable._ With Illustrations printed in colours. Handsomely bound in cloth, gilt $1 75 _Sandford and Merton, in Words of One Syllable._ With Illustrations printed in colours. Handsomely bound in cloth, gilt $1 75