AN UNREPENTANT VICTORIAN (342 pp.] Derek HudsonMacmillion ($3.50).
Queen Victoria was leaving Cambridge House in London one day in 1850 when a lunatic gave her a whack on the head with a cane, raising a nasty bruise. Popular
Poet Martin Farquhar Tupper heard the shocking news and immediately produced a suitable poem: 0 dastard! Thus to strike that brow
Anointed and so fair;
0 brave young Queen! that bruise is
now The brightest jewel there.
The following day, Tupper's loyal outcry was in the hands of a job printer, and within 48 hours 100 copies were on their way to the Queen, to Tupper's friends and to...
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