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Church Embroidery. Embroidery. By Anastasia Dolby. (Chapman and Hall.)— For those interested in the subject this gorgeous volume will probably, be found a perfect guide. Its compiler was formerly embroideress to, the Queen, and she has had good archaeological and other assistance. The instructions are at once minute and intelligible, the patterns either ancient or excellent, and the taste just florid enough to suit the clerical ideas of the day. It may be recommended to all young ladies who- really believe in symbolic millinery, or who are anxious to ingratiate- themselves with High-Church curates, as a perfect treasure of precepts and designs. Mrs. Dolby evidently believes embroidery an art, which is the true way to make it one, and she has ideas on the relation between stitch and design, between means and motive, which to the uninitiated male eye seem sound. Her book, we must add, is a perfect marvel of getting up, quite ecclesiastical, and quite fit for a religious drawing- room table, where the lady of the house is not too Low-Church to stand it.
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