PRINCESS LOUISE AS SCULPTOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2409, 3 May 1900, Page 64

PRINCESS LOUISE AS SCULPTOR.

Most people know that Princess Louise is a bculptor. Her studio, we gather from tho February Lady's Realm, is a little iron building, half hidden among the trees within the garden wall at Kensington Palace, facing Palace Green : —

Through the doorway made in the wall are brought the blocks of marble which are to be fashioned into statues and busts from the Princess's models. The studio is in the private garden, communicating with the suite of apartments in the Palace occupied by her Royal Highness, and there she apende several hours each clay when at home, enveloped in a large white apron, and with overalls covering the sleeves, busy either painting or modeling. The Princess is at present at work on a statue of the Queen, which is to be placed on the west front of Manchester Cathedral. Tho statue is a gift from a citizen of Manchester.

In hei young days, we Are told in tho same aiticle, the Princess Louise elicited quite a courtly aompliment from Thomas Caiiyle. The sage was invited, along v/ilh Browning and one or two other literary celebrities, by Lady Augusta and Dean Stanley to meet tho Queen at an informal gathering at- the Deanery. Princess Louise accompanied her mother, and appears to have entered into conversation with Carlyle. In writing a description of the gathering to his sister he says of Princess Louise: "Decidedly, a very pretty young lady, and clever too, as I found out in talking to^her afterwards." The Princess then was about 21.

— For the last ten years there has been an. increase of 2000 annually in the number of Great Britain's insane.