7. Eastern Christianity: Reform and Reunion 8. Presidential Dictatorship in the United States 9. The Revolution in Finland: its Causes and Results 12. The Late German Colonies in Africa 1. The Life of Lord Clive. By Sir George Forrest, C.I.E. 223 ART. 5.-THE ECONOMIC FUTURE OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 73 1. Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry. Parly. Paper, 1919. [Cmd. 135.] 2. Appendices, Summaries of Evidence and Statements 1. First and Second Reports of the Select Committee on Transport. H.M. Stationery Office. [Cd. 130, 136.] 2. Four Reports of the Royal Commission on Canals ART. 7.—ST BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL The History of St Bartholomew's Hospital. By Sir ART. 9.-THE POETRY OF LAURENCE BINYON - 1. The Four Years-War Poems collected and newly augmented. By Laurence Binyon. Elkin Mathews, ART. 10.-RAILWAY NATIONALISATION 1. Railway Transportation: Its History and its Laws. By Arthur T. Hadley. Putnam, 1886. 2. The Case for Railway Nationalisation. By Emil And other works. ART. 11.-RECONSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES ART. 12.-MORE DOUBTS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE 1. The Genealogist (new series), Vol. VII, pp. 205-8; Vol. VIII, pp. 8-15, and pp. 137-146; three papers by James Greenstreet, entitled, 'A Hitherto unknown writer of Elizabethan Comedies'; 'Further Notices of William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, K.G.'; and 'Testimonies against the accepted authorship of Shakespeare's Plays.' Bell, 1891, 1892. 2. Sous le Masque de William Shakespeare'; William Stanley VI Comte de Derby. By Abel Lefranc. 2 BARE three p herto by, Abel THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 460.-JULY, 1919. Art. 1.-QUEEN VICTORIA AND FRANCE.* and WHEN the Princess Victoria was born, on May 24, 1819, she had, except for somewhat distant connexions with the Royal Houses of Holland and Denmark, no relation who was not of German blood. The nation over which she was to rule had willed that it should be so. In the Becond half of the 17th century, the reigns of two monarchs who were half-French had convinced the Furthe people of this country that their future sovereigns must be chosen from the German House which could trace its auth descent, through James I to Henry VII and Edward IV so to William the Norman, and through James VI to Robert the Bruce and so to Malcolm Canmore and his English Queen, the descendant of Alfred the Great. Three considerations made it certain that the House of Hanover would inter-marry with German princely amilies. Our law provided that all such marriages must e with Protestants; and the custom of the time, subequently supported by the Royal Marriage Act of 1772, nsured that the marriages of royal personages should e contracted within the limits of what may be described is royal circles. Germany abounded in Protestant princes and princesses; and it was, therefore, in the nature of hings that they should provide from among their umber consorts for British princes and princesses. At the date of Princess Victoria's birth, the danger rom France was at an end; and it was a fortunate The quotations marked with an asterisk are taken from Queen ictoria's unpublished correspondence and diaries, by gracious permission IH.M. The King. Vol. 282-No. 460. B |