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 author of Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and other works in prose and verse.

33.Painter and etcher, 1835-1903. President of the Society of British Artists 1886-1888. An artist friend of Rossetti's.

34.Specimens of China porcelain in which figures of slim Chinese ladies are painted. Mr. W. M. Rossetti points out that the correct phrase is "Lange leises"—i.e., long (tall or slim) damsels—this being the name given to porcelain of the kind by the Dutch. It is written in the manuscript of the Recollections as printed, and no doubt the proper phrase has often been so corrupted. Possibly here a witticism of Whistler's may be detected.

35.Mr. W. M. Rossetti doubts these figures. He rather thinks that Rossetti gave more than £120 for the pair (say £200), and his belief is that on their being sold by him to the dealer he had bought them of, he only received the same price which he had given.

36.In 1848, Rossetti co-operated with two of his fellow-students in painting, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt his leading colleagues and with the sculptor, Thomas Woolner, in forming the so-called Præ-Raphaelite Brotherhood. There were three other members, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens, and William Michael Rossetti. The words of the latter will best describe the movement: "A great deal of discussion has arisen from time to time as to what were the motives of these young men in forming their association, and why they called themselves Præ-Raphaelites In the briefest terms  the movement was partly one of protest and partly one of performance; protest against the general intellectual flimsiness and vapid execution of British Art in those G—2