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LEATHER BOOK-COVER. BY WILLIAM A. DILLNUTT
(CAMBERWELL)

hangings, and rich, harmonious colour and well-
composed form being common to each. They were
the work of Robert B. McCoy and Norman Riseley.
Some pretty printed muslins came from Battersea,
a school famous in the past for designs of this kind,
and it is interesting to note that one of the medals
gained by Battersea for muslins has been taken by
an Eastern student, Firoz-ud-Din. Not much can
be said for the carpets or for the needlework, of
which there was a very small show. However, it

included two good examples, a baby’s cap by
Katherine H. Powell, of Hornsey School of Art,
and a cushion cover designed and executed by
Jessie E. Done of Stockport. Other designs for,
or examples of, applied art that deserve special
mention are the drawing of a panel of a stained
glass window, North and South Wind, by James
H. Hogan of Camberwell; a mirror-frame in brass
repousse by Walter Ray of Macclesfield; and an

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BY MARY G. GIBSON (WOLVERHAMPTON)



LEATHER BOOK-COVER. BY MAUD B. S. BIRD (BIRMINGHAM,
MARGARET STREET)

excellent design for a stencilled hang-
ing by Mabel L. Hinton of Dudley.
Some well-designed decorated pages
for Tennyson’s “ Lady of Shalott ” and
“ The Holy Grail ” were shown by two
Leeds students, Nancie Wilson and
Caroline A. Burras.
In addition to the various classes of
design and work to which reference
has been made in this notice, there
was the usual contingent of art school
studies in drawing, painting, modelling,
&c., forming a considerable propor-
tion of the total number of exhibits,
which was close upon two thousand;
but these as on previous occasions
must as a whole be passed over as
outside the scope of our survey. We

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