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Miss May Morris, whose exquisite needle-work is well known, has just completed a pair of curtains for a house in Boston. They are amongst the most perfect specimens of modern embroidery that I have seen, and are from Miss Morris’s own design. I am glad to hear that Miss Morris has determined to give lessons in embroidery. She has a thorough knowledge of the art, her sense of beauty is as rare as it is refined, and her power of design is quite remarkable.
Mrs. Jopling’s life-classes for ladies have been such a success that a similar class has been started in Chelsea by Mr. Clegg Wilkinson at the Carlyle Studios, King’s Road. Mr. Wilkinson (who is a very brilliant young painter) is strongly of opinion that life should be studied from life itself, and not from that abstract presentation of life which we find in Greek marbles—a position which I have always held very strongly myself.
(1) Memoirs of an Arabian Princess. By the Princess Emily Ruete of Oman and Zanzibar. (Ward and Downey.)
(2) Makers of Venice. By Mrs. Oliphant. (Macmillan and Co.)
(3) The Plan of Campaign. By Mabel Robinson. (Vizetelly and Co.)
(4) A Year in Eden. By Harriet Waters Preston. (Fisher Unwin.)
(5) The Englishwoman’s Year-Book, 1888. (Hatchards.)
(6) Rachel and Other Poems. (Cornish Brothers.)