25 DECEMBER 1886, page 13

Bookbinding.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'] you allow me to call attention to the growing habit among publishers of fastening the sheets of books by wiring, instead of stitching them ?......

The German Ignorance Of Butler.

[To TITS EDITOR OD THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It might have been well had Mr. Stead mentioned the date of publication of the seventeenth volume of "Herzog." My copy reached me......

A Girls' Home Started By F. D. Maurice.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Many of your readers will, I believe, welcome an oppor- tunity of helping a work which was started by the Rev. Frederick Denison......

The Silence Of Dean Maitland.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I know neither "Dean Maitland" nor "Judith Wynne," nor their respective authors ; but I do know that in" The Scarlet Letter," which was......

Dogs.

ITO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "1 STa,—On behalf of the Dog-Owners' Protection Association, which, since police cruelty to dogs has ceased in the London streets, exists only......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator...i

Sin,—In the Spectator of December 18th, the author of "Judith Wynne" charges me with having "boldly imported" from that story to "The Silence of Dean Maitland," the incident of......

Mr. Hughes On "comprehension."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Your article of' last week upon this subject hardly seems to deal sufficiently with the insuperable objection to Mr. T. Hughes ' s......

" Pro Gre S S " In Syria.

1 - To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Having just returned from a long journey through Northern Syria, I was amazed to see a letter on " progress " in that unhappy......