jury would be rather more severe, there is very
little doubt that great artistic pleasure will be pro-
vided by this eclectic and inteHigent Organisation.
H. y.
draughts of inspiration he has drawn from mediasval
sources. And yet we have here no mere copy, no
vain repetition, but a genuineiy personal product
full of individual expression.
^ ENEVA.—Mr. Reuters valuable con-
H tributions to decorative design have
W T been long known to readers of THE
SiUDto. Besides the charm of their
intrinsic excellence, they have a special
interest to lovers of art in England
because of their Suggestion of certain
afhnities in the artist with William
Morris and his school. It is well
known that Mr. Reuter spent many
years in England, and that his gifts
as an illuminator were so highly ap-
preciated by William Morris that he
conßded to him the work of illuminat-
ing his book, "Roots from the Moun-
tains." There are artists who seem to
have co me into our utilitarian age from
a far-away time, " when art was for all
men and life only for painting, carv-
ing, illuminating great missals, and
weaving embroideries." Mr. Reuter is
one of them, and whether we study
his tapestries, his designs for things for
household use, his miniature paintings,
or his considerable work as an illumi-
nator, we cannot help feeling what deep
These works are not only indicative of an artist
with whorn are the secrets of design, but they are
suffused with that quaint imaginativeness peculiar
to the artist himself. This last-mentioned quality,
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