We wish to draw the attention of our readers to
the Exhibition of Textiles which is now being held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Actually this exhibition is the most magnificent collection of tapestry that has been brought together for many years. The French Government have most, generously sent some of their rarest national treasures, including three of the famous mediaeval tapestries of Reims, Cathedral and a series of Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries from the French palaces. Their effect in the large room in which they are displayed is gorgeous. Besides French and Brussels tapestry there is a particularly beautiful panel of Mortlake tapestry, " The Naked Boys." Perhaps the most pleasing hangings in the whole exhibition are four Gobelins panels, of the Seasons, made for St. Cloud, about 1686, to the design of Pierre MigHaard. It is a pity that some of the most charming of the smaller pieces have had to be hung in narrow, ill-lit rooms. Fine and appro. Prieto furniture and some superb Sa,vonnerie carpets lent b1 the French Government are shown with the panels.
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