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that tells as a soft black, and other colourings of purple, 

 brown madder, and warm white. 



A third quilt of gown prints shows a capital feeling, both 

 for colour effect and for the disposal of masses. The nine 

 squares worked together in the middle have all nearly the 

 same value of colour-strength, and hold well together, in 

 that they have a nearly common ground of dull reddish 

 brown, something near the ' murrey ' of heraldry. Of these 

 nine, the four corner squares have in them some blue, 

 which prepares the eye for the surrounding band of pale 

 blue, while the murrey ground is continued in the inner 

 three-sided pieces of the next band. The outer three-sided 

 pieces have a general effect of warm white. It is really a 

 white ground with a buff underprint, and a sprinkle of tiny 

 pink roses with two leaves apiece, a green leaf and a brown. 

 This tones excellently into the next band, an alternate criss- 

 cross of buff and orange stripes, and a little figure like a 

 flower in an eastern carpet, rosy and red-brown on a white 

 ground. The outside is full of variety, some of the patterns 

 of very interesting and beautiful colouring. All the pieces 

 appear to be new, and the work seems never to have been 

 made up or used. The colours are lively, but never garish. 



The fourth large piece of patchwork is made of calen- 

 dered chintzes ; some of the pieces showing the roses, tulips, 

 anemones, and honeysuckle of old English gardens, with 

 patterns of oriental origin. It is a well-designed quilt, but 

 would have been better if the band of white linen that 

 surrounds the middle square had been left plain, instead 

 of having coloured pieces patched on. The whole piece is 

 so full of pattern that it would have gained by having the 

 white band left free of the fidgety, irrelevant little patches. 

 The next outward band, made of a sort of rose-pattern on 

 a lighter diagonal square, with stars in the angles, is excellent, 



