DOMESTIC AND FANCY ARTICLES. 



A person of most desultory and fragmentary observation 

 must have felt the prescience of Art at our Fair. The schools 

 of needlework and painting, that multiply yearly in our cities, 

 are centres from which rays reach out to the little towns. 

 Scattered here and there in the rough, pine interior of our hall, 

 were touches of refinement in the decorative that would have 

 given a space at Kensington a distingue air. 



Mrs. Peters of Pembroke sent white satin medallions worked 

 with floss silk. The portrayals were fine conceptions of the 

 romantic. The subjects were scenes copied from amid the 

 solitudes of reedy meadows or wooded ambuscades of tiny 

 water-stretches. They were poems in color of pastoral haunts 

 in our own Pembroke. One sees them often if they but step 

 from the highway, — a shy pool which seems to try to hide its 

 waters among moss}' roots of slender birches, or under bending, 

 broad-leaved grasses, loved by the drooping brakes and giving 

 back reflections of red-berried bushes ; a dense thicket for 

 background ; broken bars spanning the fen, held still to duty 

 by interlacing vines. Chef tVcenvres in a hand's breadth of 

 space, were these Pembroke studies. 



Mr. Jones of Pembroke sent various exhibits of artistic 

 attractions, conspicuous among which was a painting on a 



