Speaking of books, the Queen accepted a book the other day through Mr. Hour; Hess, on the Victoria Era in Sout) Africa, written by H. A. Bryden and originally published by the African Critic, "The chiefest attraction, of this book was its sumptuous and unique binding, the work of Miss Birkenruth, who is making fume by her book binding in London. Of all the new occupations for women hers seems to me one of the most truly artistic.
Asie Waxestan Larmor.
20th August.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.