Athenaeum.
[After the battle of Bosworth Field, the body of Richard III. was
stript, laid across a horse behind a pursuivant-at-arms, and conducted
to Leicester, where, after it had been exposed for two days, it was
buried with little ceremony in the church of the Grey Friars. In
Burton's MS. of the History of Leicester, we read that, "within the
town was a house of Franciscan or Grey Friars, built by Simon Montfort,
Earl of {401} Leicester, whither (after Bosworth Field) the dead body
of Richard III., naked, trussed behind a pursuivant-at-arms, all dashed
with mire and blood, was there brought and homely buried; where
afterward King Henry VII. (out of royal disposition) erected for him a
fair alabaster monument, with his picture cut out, and made
thereon."--Quoted in Nichols's _Leicestershire_, vol. i. p. 357.: see
also pp. 298. 381.]
_Binding of old Books._--I shall feel obliged to any of your readers who
will tell me how to polish up the covers of old books when the leather has
got dry and cracked. Bookbinders use some composition made of glair, or
white of egg, which produces a very glossy appearance. How is it made and
used? and how do they polish the leather afterwards? Is there any little
work on book-binding?