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Tapestry unlike painting, can be both adequate and beautiful even when fragmentary, for the character of tapestry composition in this, its first period, is totally unlike that of painting composition. Whereas a painting is focused at a dominant point which controls and holds subordinate all of the rest of the design, a tapestry, when it fulfills its proper rôle, is patterned with distributed interest, a close sequence of successive unclear no one of which is permitted preeminence. Thus even a bit cut off from the whole can make a coherent and self contained unit. A fragment like the first piece in the Arts Club Exhibition, the Head of a Lady, or like the fix Soldiers, number six in the catalogue, is beautiful in design as well as drawing and sufficient unto itself as an illustrative pattern. Unclear and centuries rarely come to a close neatly together. The so-called Gothic style, the character of drawing and design that is preeminently