. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . g 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 misrulingStuarts, but ambitious schemers pur-chased by D
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . g 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 misrulingStuarts, but ambitious schemers pur-chased by Dutch gold. A somewhatsordid tale, with its mad sad sequelof Jacobitism, and one which neednever have been, had Jamess ministersbeen as patriotic as they were acuteand selfishly ambitious. One wonders what effect uponthe furniture modes of this countrythe advent of a sensible man amongthe Jacobite leaders might have inci-dentally produced, when rememberingthat the national discontent with theSILVER BEPoussfi MIRROR. WINDSOR CASTLE. Georgcs was, at almost any time. WILLIAM, ANNE, AND GEORGE L—1688-1727 373 during the centuiy succeeding the Revolution of 1688, at least asuniversal as that which was shown against the last Stuart who the whole, Williams accession probably benefited the developmentof English furniture design ; the tastes of the Stuarts were so Italianateand effeminate, so much less in accord with the English temperamentthan were those of their sedate, comfort-loving successors that, hadEngland remained under Stuart rule,the eighteenth century might neverhave evolved the sequence of nativedesigners who interwove distinctlyBritish individuality into their ren-derings even when most affected byFrench modes. When William the Stadtholderarrived, he found an advance guardof Dutch workers and a pro-Dutchtrend in taste awaiting him ; indeed, a furniture stylist might almostas logically place at the head of the period we are now consideringmuch of the furniture
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