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would have been a thousand pities if this remark-
able object had been separated from its fellows in
the museum, as it assuredly would have been had
it accompanied the rest of Sir Trevor Lawrence’s
collection to the sale which takes

of Verona.” The calligraphy is beautifully executed,
and the ornamental penwork and figure composi-
tions are entirely appropriate to the design as a
whole.

place at Christie’s next month, for
the authorities have now no money to
expend on acquisitions.
Our illustration of an illuminated
manuscript designed and executed by
Miss Jessie Bayes is taken from the
opening folios to a very handsome thin
volume of twenty-five decorated pages
in the possession of Mr. T. W. Lamont,
of New York. The work is done on
vellum and gilded, and the subjects
for the lettering are taken from Shake-
speare’s “ Songs,” the present illustra-
tion being readily recognised as the
song of the musicians in Act IV.
Scene n of “The Two Gentlemen


RYOSHI-BUNKO OR BOX FOR PAPERS, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE, BT.,
PRESENTED BY HIS FAMILY TO THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM