Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters; . ANATOMY. LeSSON f. THE ANATOr^y OF ^ Good M/1ry LESSONS IN ANATOMYFrom an original drawing by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. To/ace page 80. I • \ ?^^.J. ^i; ;- COOD V/QN1AM LESSONS IN ANATOMYFrom an original drawing by Sir Edvvaku Blkne-Jones, Bart. To •ace page 80. EDWARD BURNE-JONES 8i the occasion, we shifted our quarters to Previtales,and I have known no merrier hours before or sincethan those we passed together. Burne-Jones always made a grave pretence ofbeing quite ignorant as to what should be orderedfor
Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters; . ANATOMY. LeSSON f. THE ANATOr^y OF ^ Good M/1ry LESSONS IN ANATOMYFrom an original drawing by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. To/ace page 80. I • \ ?^^.J. ^i; ;- COOD V/QN1AM LESSONS IN ANATOMYFrom an original drawing by Sir Edvvaku Blkne-Jones, Bart. To •ace page 80. EDWARD BURNE-JONES 8i the occasion, we shifted our quarters to Previtales,and I have known no merrier hours before or sincethan those we passed together. Burne-Jones always made a grave pretence ofbeing quite ignorant as to what should be orderedfor these Httle feasts. Of one of them, where hewas to be the host, he wrote to me some few daysbefore imploring me in a spirit of mock despair tocome to his rescue and arrange the menu. I no more know, he cries, what dinner toorder than the cat on the hearth as I write—less, forit would promptly order mice. Oh, Carr, save myhonour and order for me a nice dinner so that I maynot be quoted as a warning of meanness ! I am notmean. Order apples of gold on plates of silver, andlet the wine be scented and brought from Lebanon ;but not a mean dinner, nor yet ostentatious or pre-suming, or such a one as could possibly competewith the
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