We deeply regret to chronicle the death of Mrs. Meynell,
the distinguished poet and woman of letters. Great refinement both of conception and workmanship was the most remarkable quality of her work. The friend of most of the greatest men of letters of the late Victorian period, she had learned all the "thou shalt nots " of the arts before she set pen to paper. Her taste was impeccable, her work infinitely painstaking and invariably worthy of attention and admiration. Whether the rarefied atmosphere in which her girlhood was spent did not tend to constrict and freeze a mind of great natural sensibility and some emotional warmth, rather than to foster it, it is difficult to determine. In any case, her actual achievement was remarkable, and we have no need to canvass the course of any hypothetical history. Her work, especially her poetry, was an example to all craftsmen in whatever medium.
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