An extraordinarily: interesting fu nas lately. been made by a lady. named Mrs, Verly living at Bognor Regis, in the shape of a INS. book bound in morocco leather, in which King Edward VIL and Queen Alexandre collected the autographs of hotable people of their time, and Fecorded their own opinions of books, flowers ete, Thus the King admired Nelson, Byron, Raphael and Maca lay, while the Queen was for Marlborough, Shakespeare, Rubens and Dickens. The King's favourite fower was the rose; the Queen's, the forget~ mes not: The Queen hated slander most of the vices; King Edward, cowardice and avarice. And so on.
"This book' was found among heap of old oddments that recently' came into Mrs. Verey's possession, though how it got there she has idea. Possibly it was swept in with, many things to. be thrown away. when Queen Alexandra moved to Marlborough House after King Bde ward's death, when she would be Clearing out all sorts of old posses-Sons as one does when moving house.
Tt is evidently. one of the eonfesbooks" which were so popular in the last century, holding a pro~ minent place on the round rosewood table which was the correct centre fof a drawing-room. The Victorians Joved stich things, as they did the "guest book" in which you wrote your. opinion of your stay, preferably verse,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.