"Crown and empire is not a formal, systematic biography of our popular King, but what might suitably be styled a book of Royal waymarks. The purpose of the book is to present, in a series of pen-pictures, an all-round, sympathetic view of His Majesty in some of the chief circumstances, public and private, of his active and eventful life. The private life is treated ..., in the first two sections of the volume ; and the King's work, as a friend of social reform and national progress, in the third ; while in the fourth will be found accounts of two of His Majesty's most famous tours in foreign lands. The concluding section is devoted to an account, largely in the words of persons contemporaneous with the events described, of the most memorable coronation scenes in the world's history, special attention being given to British coronations."--Preface.