2 JANUARY 1897, page 21

The Virtue Of Book-collecting.

W E hardly understand Mr. Gladstone's eulogy upon book-collecting as a pursuit, and besides quarrelling with him for his sin in lending his authority to the use of a barbaric......

A New Fibre.

H OW many bankruptcies does it take to establish a new industry ? British manufacturers are by all accounts among the most conservative of mankind, and if the name " ramie "......