Studio: international art (3.1894)

Home Arts and Industries at the Albert Hall

admitted certain Scandinavian interlaced dragon The tide of immigration on the part of the

shapes ? It is a fatal error to press a too general agricultural population into the larger towns would

use of their own approved, or indeed of any surely be stemmed, if once they were convinced

one set of, patterns. If the work is to prosper, that they could obtain remunerative work in, or in

in all earnestness I the immediate neighbourhood of, their own homes,

submit that the man- It is no slight undertaking. That they may accom-

agement will have to plish it, and thereby add brightness and comfort to

abandon a policy of the dull lives of the rural peasantry, is an object

centralisation for in which the Home Art and Industries Association

broader and more gene- deserves the goodwill and support of the whole

rous measures. community. Aymer Vallance.

Town and country -

alike are comprised To Mr_ Aubrey Beardsley sooner than to most

within the operations men hag CQme the sincerest form of flattery,

of the Association, 0xford; on the occasion 0f our last visit, was

which will certainly pasted Qva ^ a yery deyer imitation of his

have achieved much, ^ gtyle signed 1IWeirdsly Daubry." It was

if, by cultivating native curious tQ see the kst product of the pictorial

talent m regions never decadence under an oriel window or close to a

so remote, it is enabled piece of decoration of the Renaissance.

^----^ to establish in different _

_____f$k districts industrial The latest addition to signed posters is one by

' • V~ - , -V centres in which local Aubrey Beardsley for the well-known Pseudonym

Jslj ; ■ demands may be ade- and Autonym Libraries. It is a version in colour

<rc^/ ! • quately supplied. But of A Girl in a Bookshop, exhibited last autumn at

in order to effect this it the New English Art Club; and forms a very

inlaid work-boxes jg neCessary to obtain striking placard. No doubt the exigencies of

the co-operation of employers of industry. Thus space prevented the poster being issued with the

it is highly gratifying to learn that, after having ampler proportions of the sketch ; hence its slightly

seen some specimens of the carvings of the class crowded effect. The convention it employs is well

belonging to the picturesque village of Mayfield sustained, and as a device to arrest the attention of

in Sussex, Mr. Powell, the architect, commissioned the most apathetic eye it may be commended

them to carry out under his direction a carved warmly. Even if the "man in the street" fails to

wood screen for Arlington Church in the same appreciate it, he will hardly be so aggressively

county; the result, so far as one may judge from antagonistic to it as to its predecessor for The

a photograph, being entirely successful. Comedy of Sighs.

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inlaid walnut chest, by john reason

designed by mabel de grey