“The Queen often spoke with me about education, and in particular
of religious instruction. Her views are very serious, but at the
same time liberal and comprehensive. She (as well as Prince
Albert) hates all formalism. The Queen reads a great deal, and has
done my book on ‘The Church of the Future’ the honor to read it so
attentively, that the other day, when at Cashiobury, seeing the
book on the table, she looked out passages which she had approved
in order to read them aloud to the Queen-Dowager.” (Vol. II. p.
121.)