There is as much to interest women as men in the exhibition... Frocks today are extremely pretty, but the brocades and taffetas so beautifully painted by these old Scotsmen make one sigh a little. It is impressive to see how particular a famous bluestocking like Mrs. Montagu was about her dress and what hat she would say to the dishevellshapeless damsels who haunt the neighbourhood of London University now.
The old ladies arè superb but rather terrifying. They remind me ofa French lady of the old regime in
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.