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centuries, the fourteenth and fifteenth. It is the second half of this second great period in the history of the arts, the tapestries of the fifteenth century, that is shown in the Loan Exhibition of Gothic Tapestries at the Arts Club--Gothic is a bad term. It was applied to the art of late medieval France in the eighteenth century as a term of opprobrium. The Goths were barbarians and to the eighteenth century eye the great cathedrals of France were. Hence today when we appreciate the supreme beauty of that architecture it is absurd to retain the name of scorn. Moreover, even if the word is accepted it is not fittingly applied to these tapestries for they are rather later in date than most of the architecture for which it was originally invented. But unfortunately there is no convenient alternative term so Gothic is probably in the language of art to stay. Tapestries of the earlier half of this second great period of the art are almost nonexistent. We have left only a half dozen fragments and one