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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s hedoes not find novel-writing easy work; there is al-ways a point in the story in which he feels as if itwould kill him. He has written six novels, some ofthem several times over, and he has sworn manytimes that he would never write another. Threetimes he has thrown up commissions in sheer despair,but he is going on just the same. THE QUEENS DOLLS. IN the Strand Magazine for September 15 itseditor, Mr. Newnes, had a royal opportunity, ofwhich he has not made a royal use. The paper onthe Queens Dolls was an excellent subject, andher Majesty seems to have done what she could tohelp to make the article historically interesting andbiographically useful. The great disappointment ofthe article is in the blurred way its illustrations areprinted. While congratulating Mr. Newnes upon thehappy chance wliich gave him the article, it is a pitythat he cannot be congratulated upon the pains whichhe has taken to enable his readers to see and under-stand the way in which the Queen dressed her dolls
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THE DUCHESS OF PARMA (11.5). COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATEB (120). A GROUP OF THE QUEENS DOLLS. COUNT ALMA VIVA (35). 478 THE REVIEW OF RE^IEIVS. sixty years ago. Miss Florence Low, the writer ofthe article, tells us that the Queens dolls were littlewooden Dutch monsters, from three to nine inchesin height. The Queen had quite a Noahs Ark ofdressed dolls, no fewer than one hundred and thirty-two being carefully stowed away when she put awaychildish things. The Queen dressed no fewer thanthirty-two of these with her own fingers, dressingthem according to pattern, and she found her pat-terns chiefly on the stage. The Queen did not selecther dolls from any sympathy with their originals; sheseems to have chosen them for the sake of theirclothes rather than for the sake of the characters theywere supposed to represent. This deprives the list ofher dolls of any real historical interest. The dolls are of the most unpromising material,says Miss Low, and would be regarded with scornby the average bo

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