DOI Heft:
No. 85 (April, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Ford, Harriet: The work of Mrs. Adrian Stokes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0169
Sporting Cups.
skill into the fabric of the picture. Full of ingenuity,
of resources, delighting in all delicate and dainty
means of expressing the thought, she yet never
descends to triviality, to mere " prettiness." I
spoke of the psychology of the drawing in the
earlier work ; how much more it may be spoken
of now. Each line in the Queen and the Page
silver cup designed by c r. ashi1ee
executed by the guild of handicraft
carries its full force of spiritual significance.
There is something of Maeterlinckian mysticism
about it, almost something of Maeterlinck's in-
sistent repetition. It is rhythmic in its flow and
the ear is attuned to the sadness of the under-
currents of life. It has the charm, the tenderness,
the " morbidezza" of a mediaeval love-story. Vet
no one more than Mrs. Stokes deprecates the
unhealthiness of much modern attitudinising.
Practical, capable, enthusiastic, with that " divine
gift" of the dexterous use of tools, loving her
work without pose or affectation, looking for
beauty in all things, she has a clear, sane and
healthy outlook upon life. H. F.
The sixteenth Home Arts and Industries
Exhibition will be held at the Albert Hall,
London, from the 24th to the 28th May.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IM-
PROVEMENT OF SPORTING
CUPS AND TROPHIES. PART I.
The age in which we live is of a piece
with the jerry-builder who angered Tennyson by
destroying useful trees. " Why do you cut them
down ? " the poet asked. " Make the foundation
of your house a few yards back, and you could
save them. Trees are beautiful things." The
jerry-builder smiled with amusement. " Trees are
ornaments," he replied ; " what we want is
utility." And the industrial vandalism of to-day
has not had a more laconic spokesman.
The most general manifestation of this destruc-
tive kind of " utility " is to be found in the modern
craze for cheap things. Thackeray laughed at
this craze, at this childish mania for cheapness.
A friend spoke to him one day of a place where
cheap and excellent old wines could be purchased ;
silver cup
designed and executed by w. hardiman
skill into the fabric of the picture. Full of ingenuity,
of resources, delighting in all delicate and dainty
means of expressing the thought, she yet never
descends to triviality, to mere " prettiness." I
spoke of the psychology of the drawing in the
earlier work ; how much more it may be spoken
of now. Each line in the Queen and the Page
silver cup designed by c r. ashi1ee
executed by the guild of handicraft
carries its full force of spiritual significance.
There is something of Maeterlinckian mysticism
about it, almost something of Maeterlinck's in-
sistent repetition. It is rhythmic in its flow and
the ear is attuned to the sadness of the under-
currents of life. It has the charm, the tenderness,
the " morbidezza" of a mediaeval love-story. Vet
no one more than Mrs. Stokes deprecates the
unhealthiness of much modern attitudinising.
Practical, capable, enthusiastic, with that " divine
gift" of the dexterous use of tools, loving her
work without pose or affectation, looking for
beauty in all things, she has a clear, sane and
healthy outlook upon life. H. F.
The sixteenth Home Arts and Industries
Exhibition will be held at the Albert Hall,
London, from the 24th to the 28th May.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IM-
PROVEMENT OF SPORTING
CUPS AND TROPHIES. PART I.
The age in which we live is of a piece
with the jerry-builder who angered Tennyson by
destroying useful trees. " Why do you cut them
down ? " the poet asked. " Make the foundation
of your house a few yards back, and you could
save them. Trees are beautiful things." The
jerry-builder smiled with amusement. " Trees are
ornaments," he replied ; " what we want is
utility." And the industrial vandalism of to-day
has not had a more laconic spokesman.
The most general manifestation of this destruc-
tive kind of " utility " is to be found in the modern
craze for cheap things. Thackeray laughed at
this craze, at this childish mania for cheapness.
A friend spoke to him one day of a place where
cheap and excellent old wines could be purchased ;
silver cup
designed and executed by w. hardiman