Significant.

Otago Witness, Issue 2342, 19 January 1899, Page 60

Significant.

10 may or may not be true that it waa Ho** setti who urged the late Sir Edward Burne* Jones, the famous painter, when at the outset of his career, to conneot with a hyphen •B.urne" and "Jones." "Jones is nobody," Rossetti would declare—" only a particle of ai vast multiple 1 But Burne- Jones— that is unS mistak&ble !"

It was an amusing trait in Rossetti that he' was wont to designate the good work of this or that friend as the work of — and he would mention the most distinctive name or^parfc name of the person concerned. Thus ha would say: "Yes, that is Burne- Jones; but' this, this here, you know, ia only Jones" ; or, That, now, is the real Holman Hunt, bufc this here is only Hunt" ; or, " You can hear Tennyson in that, but Alfred wrote the other linos.

In at least two amusing instances BurneJones himself, more or les? unconsciously, adopted the same method. He was asked onca if he thought William Bell Scott more eminent as a poet or as an artist.

"I never thought very highly of Bell," ho replied ; then, seeing a look of surprise, added; wijh a humorous twinkle in his eye: "I like old 801 l Scott — old Scotuß, aa we always called him-H immensely, and I think that William Bell Scott wrote some very fine verse; but I always thought it a pity that Bell took to painting!"