A Harper’s Weekly Preview and Oddities Relay
The piece surveys Sir Richard Phillips and the Dutch Mail hoax tale, notes June Harper’s offerings including Howells’s Indian Summer and East Angels, and highlights Stanley’s Congo expedition history with vivid detail. It also features a humorous travel anecdote about a cheap Europe tour and a light farewell scene.
Remarkable 16th Century Queen Elizabeth Prayer Book on View in Bond Street
A small vellum prayer book once owned by Queen Elizabeth is exhibited in London. It measures three by two inches and holds sixty five leaves with prayers in five languages, plus miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard. The piece reportedly served as a marriage pledge to the Duke DAlencon in 1581.
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