. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. THE MAY queens GOLD CROSS (l88S).{Designed by Arthur Severn.) MR. RUSKINs may QUEENS. 129 ceremonial. The queens gown, for one thing,has been altered two or three times. Miss KateGreenaway designed one, but Mr. Ruskin didnot like it; it was a mere robe, he said, andmade its wearer look like Madge new gown has been designed by , and when Mr. Ruskin sees it, will,let us hope, meet with greater acceptance. Thecross, too, is of different workmanship eachyear, being designed sometimes by Mr. Burne-
. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. THE MAY queens GOLD CROSS (l88S).{Designed by Arthur Severn.) MR. RUSKINs may QUEENS. 129 ceremonial. The queens gown, for one thing,has been altered two or three times. Miss KateGreenaway designed one, but Mr. Ruskin didnot like it; it was a mere robe, he said, andmade its wearer look like Madge new gown has been designed by , and when Mr. Ruskin sees it, will,let us hope, meet with greater acceptance. Thecross, too, is of different workmanship eachyear, being designed sometimes by Mr. Burne-Jones, sometimes by Mr. Arthur Severn, some-times by other artists. One year the cross wascomposed out of a wild rose, and Mr. Ruskincomplained because there was no thorn, as ifa true queens crown could ever be without itsthorn. But in all essentials the May QueenFestival at Whitelands has been the same fromyear to year; and the following account ofthe ceremony in 1885, written at the time, mayserve as well as another to show the spirit andthe scope of this characterist
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