15 JANUARY 1887, page 14

Bookbinding.

ire TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In reply to Mr. Wilson, allow me to refer him to the statement made by Mr. Zaehnsdorf at the Library Conference on September 30th.......

Books.

THAT QUITE IMPOSSIBLE " SHE.". MR. RIDER HAGGARD must have meditated on "that not impossible She" of whom young men are apt to dream, till he determined to write a tale about a......

Heine's " Reisebilder."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I should not have troubled you with any defence of my translation of Heine, had not your reviewer brought against me what is tantamount......

Poetry.

A FROSTY SUNRISE. Au, bitter beauty ! How the fair, false frost Burdens each leafless spray ! The ice-buds grow Thick midst the crystal foliage of the snow, Heaping their......