12 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 10

THE CORONATION.

This great ceremony took place, as had been previously announced, on Thursday. We shall endeavour, in our description of it, to render the whole as intelligible as possible to those who are compelled by fate and distance to receive their impressions of the pageant at second-hand. In doing this, we must " On their imaginary forces work " ; and they must ' Piece out our imperfections with their thoughts " ; and even then, much must be left unrecorded and unimagined. If, however, those who only read of the show, lose some of the pleasure which those who saw it enjoyed, they can at the same time congratulate themselves that they escaped the fatigue, neither small nor easily sustained, which those who saw it had to endure.