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page 284.) We have lately been hearing more about Sweden, par- ticularly about her magnificent Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, and we are, therefore especially pleased to see the August number of the Architectural Review (9 Queen Anne's Date, S.W. 1, 5s.) which is devoted almost entirely to this exhibition. Baron flame], the Swedish Foreign Ministee, has written a 'foreword to this number, in which he says that the exhibition at Stockholm holds a fund of new ideas, too bold, K not too shocking to be recognized at once in all quarters . . The new ideas which have burst forth here possibly contain Aced which will fertilize the architecture of the future." From the numerous illustrations of designs for interior decoration, rugs, vases, electric fittings, &c., eontaiqed in this magazine, we heartily agree with Baron Ramel's last sentence. Courage, originality, and rationalization seem tc; be the dominant characteristics of this exhibition. But for many people the most interesting feature in this journal will be the last article written by Mr. D. H. Lawrence .hefore his death, " Then Disaster Looms Ahead "—an impression of his birthplace, a little mining village, eight miles from Nottingham, and the effect of nineteenth-century industrialism upon it. Mr. Lawrence is not afraid of the truth, and the truth is not always very pleasant to hear.
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