“The Dudley” — Instant strength and prosperity of the exhibition — Method and unexpensiveness of management — Council of selection — Their trials and sufferings — All “the Clique” represented at “the Dudley” in 1867 — “The Dudley,” the nursing ground of many subsequently famous artists— End of the old “Dudley,” and conclusion of the history of the St. John’s Wood Clique . . 163-183
CHAPTER XI
ARTHUR J. LEWIS— JUNIOR ETCHING CLUB— MORAY MINSTRELS
“Companion and friend of all the painters of his time” — Formation of the Junior Etching Club — Members in the beginning — Whistler joins — Publications of the Club : “ Hood’s Poems ” and “ Passages from Modern English Poets” — Decease of the Etchers’ and birth of the Minstrels’ — First known as the “Jermyn Band” — Prominent singers — Verse of a skit on the company — Recovered relic of a lost Pre-Raphaelite song — Arthur Lewis’s removal from Jermyn Street to Moray Lodge — Men of mark at the Minstrels’ evenings— Fred Walker’s designs for the cards of invitation — Ewelme — Description of the village — Sheep- washing — Old man-o’-war’s-man and bee-master — From the Nile and the Shannon to the impending swarm — Sketch- ing the village children — Adventure with a swan — Ewelme revisited — Hermit’s Derby ...... 184-201
CHAPTER XII
DECORATION, 1859
All Souls’ Church, Halifax — Journey thither to decorate part of the chancel-arch and roof of the choir — Giddy work — Table traits of the natives — The small curate’s great condescen-
