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When a number of critics have formed the same opinion about a piece, and all wish to say that it is good a very bad term to employ one will call it good, another very good; a third, exceedingly good; a fourth, great; a fifth, splendid, a sixth, superb; and so on till some reckless language-monger uses the state-occasion term a "work of genius."
If ever there was a mortal state-occasion for the immortals to be abroad, it was this. The great procession started from Buckingham Palace at about 10 o'clock. The first two state carriages, each drawn by six horses, held the Duchess of Kent and her attendants. The Queen's mother, regally attired, was enthusiastically cheered all along the way.
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