. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . TISH DECORATIVE FURNI-TURE-1688-1727 WILLIAM AND MARY, 1688-1702. ANNE, 1702-1714GEORGE L, 1714-1727 IF it were respectful to concoct names for venerable mobiliary modesafter the fashion adapted for new cure-alls, the very realdifficulties of naming the interesting era now before us mightbe overcome by welding the first syllable of the above English rulersnames into some such horrific compound as Wimariangeo. But onedares not to seriously advocate such an uneuphonious and drasticinnovation when even the use of the term Orange t
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . TISH DECORATIVE FURNI-TURE-1688-1727 WILLIAM AND MARY, 1688-1702. ANNE, 1702-1714GEORGE L, 1714-1727 IF it were respectful to concoct names for venerable mobiliary modesafter the fashion adapted for new cure-alls, the very realdifficulties of naming the interesting era now before us mightbe overcome by welding the first syllable of the above English rulersnames into some such horrific compound as Wimariangeo. But onedares not to seriously advocate such an uneuphonious and drasticinnovation when even the use of the term Orange to designatethis period of curvilinear Dutch proclivities is regarded as tooradical for adoption. To entitle the period the Walnut Age is scarcely more accuratethan to rest content with the usual but inadequate term QueenAnne, as walnut was in fairly general use both before and afterthis period. The names of our kings and queens are preferable from their assist-ance in conjuring up mental pictures of their age in picturesque fashion. 371 37-2 DECORATIVE FURNITURE. KING WILUAMS travelling CHEST. William of Orange is no Defying alike the present table of prohibited degrees and suspicionsof our ignorance of the successions to the British Crown, we consequentlyhave ventured to suggest the paperalliance of William and his sister-in-lawand successor, Anne: the furnitureintroduced during the reign of thefirst of the Georges being understoodas also included in the style. Modern historians appear to bematerially modifying Macaulays blackand white presentments of history,longer the disinterested saviour of this country from Stuart misruleand Popery, nor England in 1688 a nation driven by despair to callin a foreign prince to save it from its own king, whilst the men whoinWted William of Orange over are shown by their letters (carefullysaved by that prudent monarch for James inspection had mattersgone awry) to have been no patriots sadly wrestling with their sense of allegiance to the
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