31 AUGUST 1907, Page 23

The Restoration of the Bayeux Tapestry. By Charles Dawson, F.S.A.

(Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Dawson begins by quoting an amusing passage from Miss Agnes Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of England" in which she deprecates criticism of the tapestry by male persons, as being presumably ignorant of crewel- stitch. He shows that however skilful she may have been in this or other like work, she did not know anything about what had actually been done in the way of addition and change in the details of the tapestry, and finishes with a caution against making inferences from what now appears.