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Victoria (1837-1901) had the longest reign in British history. After a lonely, overprotected childhood, she was awakened one night to be told that her uncle, William IV, was dead, and that she, at 18, was Queen. Three years later she married her shy, studious cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, and bore him nine children, whose marriages allied England with the ruling houses of Germany, Russia, Greece and Rumania. In the first part of her reign, in the turbulent debates over the Reform Bill and during the unsettling changes of the Industrial Revolution, she quarreled frequently with her ministers...
Died. William Howard Taft II, 64, Manhattan banker, a nephew of the late President and a cousin of the Senator; in Manhattan...
...COUSIN RACHEL (348 pp.)-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday...
...latest Du Maurier novel, My Cousin Rachel (her tenth in 20 years), is no Rebecca, but it is still the stuff of which dreamboats are made. The movies have already bought it for a reported $100,000, and the Literary Guild has made it the February choice. In the current story market, neither could have made a wiser move. My Cousin Rachel is that comparatively rare thing in present-day writing, an expert blend of suspense, shrewd realism and romantic hokum...
What, or who, killed Cousin Ambrose at that sinister villa in Florence? Was it a "hereditary" brain tumor? Or was it Rachel, his half-Italian, half-English bride? Ambrose, a confirmed bachelor and English country gentleman, had gone to Florence for his health, wound up as a bubbling, then a fearful, husband. To Philip, his heir in Cornwall, it all seemed plain as day: Rachel and her sinister adviser Rainaldi had murdered Cousin Ambrose. Then Rachel came to Cornwall on a visit and, in no time, her cute tricks had Philip dancing attendance like a puppet. But when Philip began...