3. The Prospects of Anglo-Italian Trade 4. A Scientific Decision on Alcohol 5. The German Banks and 'Peaceful Penetration'. 6. The Currency Note in Relation to Banking and the 7. Eastern Christianity: Reform and Reunion 8. Presidential Dictatorship in the United States. 9. The Revolution in Finland: its Causes and Results 1. The Founder of the Royal Literary Fund 2. Ancestor Worship and the Chinese Drama 3. Problems of the New Palestine 4. The 'Life and Liberty' Movement ART. 1.-SINGAPORE AND SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES 1. Straits Settlements Records, Nos. 10, 66, 70, 182, 182A and others. India Office. 1. A History of the French Novel (to the close of the 19th Century). By George Saintsbury. Two vols. 2. Essays in Romantic Literature. By George Wynd- ART. 5.—A SERBIAN ANGLOPHIL, DOSITHEUS OBRADOVIĆ 333 1. Serbia of the Serbians. By C. Mijatovich. London, ART. 7.-THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE 364 1. Germany, 1815-1890. By Sir Adolphus William Ward. 3 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1916- 2. The German Empire, 1867-1914. By William Har- 1. Memoranda Nos. 1 to 21, Interim and Final Reports [Cd. 8511 and 9065], and The Health of the Munition Worker. Issued by the 'Health of Munition Workers Committee.' H.M. Stationery Office, 1916-18. 1. Federal Government: Its Function and Method. By Prof. G. B. Adams. New York: Knickerbocker ART. 13. THE ECONOMIC POSITION OF GREAT BRITAIN 1. Report of the Working Classes Cost of Living Com- mittee (November 1918). [Cd. 8980.] THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 460.-JULY, 1919. Art. 1.-QUEEN VICTORIA AND FRANCE.* 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 second half of the 17th century, the reigns of two monarchs who were half-French had convinced the people of this country that their future sovereigns must be chosen from the German House which could trace its descent, through James I to Henry VII and Edward IV and 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 families. Our law provided that all such marriages must be with Protestants; and the custom of the time, subsequently supported by the Royal Marriage Act of 1772, ensured that the marriages of royal personages should be contracted within the limits of what may be described as royal circles. Germany abounded in Protestant princes and princesses; and it was, therefore, in the nature of things that they should provide from among their number consorts for British princes and princesses. At the date of Princess Victoria's birth, the danger from France was at an end; and it was a fortunate The quotations marked with an asterisk are taken from Queen Victoria's unpublished correspondence and diaries, by gracious permission of H.M. The King. |