d and
highly educated man nowadays, who has been to Italy and Egypt and
where not, who can talk learnedly enough (and fantastically enough
sometimes) about art and literature of past days, sitting down without
signs of discomfort in a house that, with all its surroundings, is
just brutally vulgar and hideous. All his education has done for him
no more than that."

"You cannot civilize man unless you give him a share in art." But the
man must be civilized by education to accept that share of art that
his life offers to him. It must be admitted that though a man may be
educated enough to enable him to theorize, he may yet be too poor to
furnish with taste. If he is able to act up to his theories, and to
surround himself with what is refined, and fail to do so, and is
contented not to stir in this matter, he is not truly educated.

"Now that which breeds art is art. Any piece of work that is well done
is so much help to the cause." "The cause is the Democracy of Art, the
ennobling of daily and common work."

FOOTNOTES:

[461] Odyssey, xxiii., l. 190.

[462] Layard's "Monuments," 1st series, pl. 77; see
"Histoire de l'Art," ii., Perrot and Chipiez.

[463] A bed may be absolutely without any hangings or
tester, and yet carry embroidery, as in the curious
funeral couch of a sepulchral monument in painted
terra-cotta in the Campana Museum of the Louvre. Here
the mattress is worked to resemble ticking, striped, and
the cushions have embroidered ends; and are made in the
form of bolsters. There is a similar sepulchral monument
in the British Museum. Both of them were found at
Cervetri, and are quaint examples of early Etruscan art.
See Dennis' "Etruria," 2nd ed., p. 227.

[464] The thread embroideries in counted stitches were
worked in an endless variety of beautiful designs, of
which the collection in Franz and Frida Lipperheide's
"Musterbuecher fuer Weibliche Handarbeit" is most
interesting and exhaustive; including Italian and German
"Lienenstickerei," Berlin, 1883.

[465] Of the seventeenth century.

[466] The carpets used by the Romans were called
Triclinaria Babylonica, for the use of the triclinium,
and Polymata cubicularia, for the cubiculum. These were
dyed crimson, scarlet, and purple. See Horace's Satires,
ii. 6; also Smith's "Dictionary of Greek and Roman
Antiquities," s.v. Tapes., p. 102-106, Tric