14 DECEMBER 1901, Page 22

leather binding "In Commemoration," with two coronets and tie Prince

of Wales's feathers. Within are portraits of the Prince and Princess. We must say frankly that we do not like these decorations. There should be, we think, but one kind of orng. went on a book of devotion, and that should be some sacred figure or symbol. This kind of thing makes us think of the Roman custom of apotheosis. There was, it is true, something to be said, though not of real validity, for a volume that com- memorated the late Queen. But it was not a good precedent ; and this is a worse following.