Old Days in Bohemian London Recollections of Clement Scott
Old Days in Bohemian London Recollections of Clement Scott
Clement Scott
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At the moment I write of we were all mad about blue china, Chippendale chairs, Sheraton sideboards, old spinets and brass fire-irons. George du Maurier, with his Punch pictures, had set the fashion, and everyone in the artistic world started to ransack their belongings and revert to the modes and whims of their great-grandmothers. Bric-a-brac shops were turned inside out for last-century 8* 116 OLD DAYS IN BOHEMIAN LONDON clocks, china and furniture, and women appeared wearing mob caps, fichus ...and frills like their ancestors. The age was exactly ripe for The Vicar of Wakefield, and John Hare, with his keen instinct, pictured in his mind's eye a most perfect " Olivia " in Ellen Terry. John Hare was right. With faultless judgment he and William G. Wills gave an absolutely faithful reproduction of one of the most graceful and picturesque periods of old England Old England, with its pink-and-white apple-blossoms, yellow daffodils and bluebells. Simplicity had not then been destroyed by steam, smoke and petrol ; it was the England that John Ruskin wrote about, the England that poets and painters loved.
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