Allowing for the exuberance of the satirist, one may still glean a good deal of information from this portentous list as to the tastes of the young person of the period. "Potichomanie" was the fashionable craze for pseudo-oriental decoration by covering the insides of glass vessels with designs on paper or sheet gelatine, so as to imitate Japanese porcelain. _Ten Thousand a Year_ was Sam Warren's once popular novel, one of the first chronicles of the rise of the "bounder"; _The Convent Call_ and _Two Fond Hearts_ represent the appeal of propagandist Romanism and roseate sentimentality. The name of the French novel is withheld; it might perhaps have been one by Eugène Sue. Major Pendennis said that he had not read any other novelist for thirty years besides Paul de Kock, but we can hardly credit Miss Lucy Smith in 1858 with a choice which would be common form for her grand-daughters. Along with frequent references to the ignorance, and extravagance, the frivolity and futility of girls of the upper classes and to the mercenary marriages made in Society, we find an increasing readiness to recognize and welcome the competition of women in the sphere of art. The first Exhibition of Women Artists had been held in 1857; the name of Rosa Bonheur was already so familiar in England that in the summer of 1858 _Punch_ expressed regret that there was "no picture in the Royal Academy of Prince Albert's prize pig by Sir Edwin or Rosa." The Female School of Art and Design at South Kensington is mentioned in 1860, and in 1861 _Punch_ makes a friendly comment on the announcement that a female sculptor, Miss Susan Durant, had "received a commission to execute one of the poetical marbles for the Mansion House, being, so far as one can recollect, the first English lady who has ever obtained a compliment of this particular kind." [Sidenote: _Women Artists_] In music, women, as singers, had long established their claim to the allegiance of the opera-going world. Their recognition as instrumentalists came later. _Punch_ had missed the first appearance of Mlle. Neruda in 1849, but waxes enthusiastic in 1858 over the performance of Mlle. Humler, a distinguished violinist, "a female Paganini, who pleases as well as astonishes," and in the same year extols native talent in the person of Arabella Goddard, the distinguished pianist who rendered admirable service by introducing the works of Beethoven to British amateurs:-- MR. PUNCH TO MISS GODDARD A VALENTINE My dear Miss Goddard; A creature foddered On Liszts and Thalbergs, extolled by Ella, Perceives creation Of new sensation When you strike ivory, Arabella. You've known, Miss Goddard, What 'tis to plod hard, The bee must toil ere he hives the _mella_. Now, music gushes, Or leaps, or rushes To your white fingers, Miss Arabella.