I am happy to say that this is not a Blue Book, unless it happens to be so in the color of the binding. Yet it contains a faithful record of the progress of a great historical event from its inception to its termination, and to myself, at least, it will always be a pleasant souvenir.

When I am dead and gone, as people say in England, the visit of the Prince of Wales will be recalled in the midst of pleasant associations by hundreds of thousands who are now children, and whose present boast is that they have seen him ; and when they too have gone the way of all flesh their children and their children's children will read in the history of our time the chronicle of this royal visit, and it will be equally remembered in England and America, and tend for ages to preserve and strengthen that friendship which ought always to subsist between the English and Americans, who are allied, not only by ties of interest, but by an affinity of race and language, which latter is a natural bond that can never be entirely broken, and it is to be hoped that the clay will never come when it will be found weaker than we find it now.

I employed nearly the same words in a newspaper leader before the advent of His Royal Highness in America, and I think they met with a hearty response in every Anglo-Saxon breast on both sides of the Atlantic. They were quoted by the press in America, and echoed in England by the press there.