International studio (20.1903)

Gaskin is always marked by originality of treat-
ment, sound workmanship, and excellent taste.
Especially notable was their series of gold and
silver necklaces, chains, and pendants set with
different kinds of jewels, and a dainty little group
of hat pins and lace-pins, also with precious stones
at the head. A beautiful little mirror in copper-
gilt, set with turquoises, was enamelled by Miss Efhe
Ward. Messrs. Model & Weingartner showed, among
many other good exhibits, some excellent silver
buttons—examples of a branch of craft which
enamellers and silversmiths might develop to great
advantage. It is surprising that so little has been
done, especially by women, to beautify these
common accessories of dress, while the less
essential ornaments, such as brooches, are becom-
ing tiresome by prolixity. Both the London and
Birmingham Guilds of Handicraft were well repre-
sented by jewellery of the kind for which they are
known, but the former is in some danger of
making a mannerism of what has been aptly called
the " wire and pip" style of design. Mr. W. S.
Hadaway's enamels were again conspicuous in the
decoration of pendants,
belts and clasps; and there
was some careful and
fine work shown by the
Central School of Arts
and Crafts, as well as by
such capable and interest-
ing metal-smiths as Mr.
Bernard Cuzner and Miss
Gertrude Hildersheim.
A great part of the South
gallery was devoted to
books and their bindings,
which indeed deserve a
separate article, but some
of the more important may
be mentioned here. A
collection of old Chap-
books, bound by Miss G.
de Lisle, at once attracted
notice by its uncommon
shape and thickness, and
the naive charm of its
roughly embossed cover
tied with green ribbons.
Miss Jessie King's fairily-
delicate line-work was at
once recognisable in the
cover-design for "The
Story pf Rosalynde," and
Miss Woolrich showed

some fine tooling on morocco in Stevenson's
"Child's Garden of Verses." Miss Rosamund
Philpott's " Church Towers of Somerset" showed
excellent judgment in the treatment of a large book
for table reference. Here also were some interest-
ing bindings from the Camberwell School of Arts
and Crafts, by A. Langford, Roland Hill, G. H.
Sweetman, Arthur H. Neate, William Terry, and
Frances D. Rye, and a representative group from
the Birmingham Guild. The Doves Press, the Pear
Tree Press (with Mr. James Guthrie's original and
sombre touch in the designs), the Chiswick Press,
the Ashendene Press, and Mr. Douglas Cockerell's*
binders had each a few well-chosen examples,
together with those of Mr. A. de Sauty and Mr.
D. S. and Miss MacColl.
R. HERBERT DRAPER'S
PAINTED CEILING. FOR
THE LIVERY HALL OF THE
DRAPERS' COMPANY.
THE late Louis Gallait, a Belgian painter of



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