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Show Queen a Lover of Books. Queen Alexandra Is a grout lover of books and has given numbers of them as presents. She Is particularly fond of presenting Lord Tennyson's poems. Sho know tho great poet personally and regarded him with much affection. When her majesty gives a hook for a present it Is almost always beautifully bound and specially to hor order. Bookbinding is n branch of art which traditionally Is patronized by royal personages. Tho unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots, and her equally hapless hap-less grandson, Charles I., owned somo of tho most beautiful bindings extant, while Queen Elizabeth and tho Georges also patronized tho highest skill of their respcctlvo periods In this direction. |