SOME ENGLISH WALL-PAPER DESIGNS 
T HE business of Messrs. Jeffrey & Com¬ 
pany of London is actually in the hands 
of Mr. Metford Warner, who, on terms of 
intimate friendship, has been associated tor 
many years with the leaders of the move¬ 
ment which, originating in the exertions of 
William Morris, finds its fullest expression 
today in the exhibitions ot The Arts and 
Crafts Exhibition Society ; and when the 
talk is of wall-coverings, the names ot the 
members of that Society whose designs are 
secured by this firm are those which occur 
to one first. 
We should not speak loosely of “ wall¬ 
papers,” as it the substance ot all were the 
same, for this embossed “ leather paper” ot 
AN EMBOSSED DESIGN BY LEWIS F. DAY 
“THE ARTS” BY STEPHEN WEBB 
Mr. Day’s design, is of stouter stuff alto¬ 
gether than the ordinary wall-paper, and 
much more expensive of course. Again, 
the design called “ The Arts,” by Mr. 
Stephen Webb, is modeled in low relief to 
be printed on thin sheet metal. Imagination 
will easily fill Nature’s realm with just such 
creatures as these, and to me it appears that 
we have here the perfection of restful space¬ 
filling. A great many designs were passed 
in review before it was decided to give this 
the highest place on these grounds, and the 
critic of Mr. Webb’s work will probably 
find it hard to point to a single line out 
of place. 
It should be remembered that everything 
designed for printing has to bear repetition 
indefinitely, a square of twenty-two inches 
being the unit in the case of wall-papers. 
One can do with any amount of “Art” as in 
the similar case of “Music” with its repeats, but 
not with merciless repetitions of actualities, 
like portraits of statesmen, or bunches of 
flowers. In Mr. Crane’s “ rose” pattern we 
have the standard rose elongated indefinitely, 
as it has to be under the circumstances; and 
the architectural effect of the whole may seem 
