In needle-point made at Argentan we find a style and design such as we should expect from its close neighbourhood to Alençon. The sole peculiarity of the Argentan workers was that, not content with the almost incredible toil involved in the lace of Alençon, they actually worked the whole réseau of their lace over in buttonhole stitch, thus making those compactly stitched hexagonal meshes which are distinctive of this wonderful fabric. The Argentan réseau was sometimes introduced into lace made at Alençon and elsewhere. The specimens, Nos. 68 and 69, are representative of this rare lace. The two specimens--one of silk and one of linen thread, Nos. 1 to 2, Plate 70--I consider to be Portuguese, from the curious though rather handsome and effective jumble of design which is often found in Spanish and Portuguese work. The Brussels needle-point of No. 3, Plate 70, and Plate 71 and Plate 72, must seem poor and thin when compared to the preceding laces. But it is very beautiful in its own delicate style, and has been called the laciest of laces. The réseau is very fragile, hence the name sometimes given of point de gaze. The designs shown have not the complete realism aimed at in the Brussels lace of the present day, but have a charm of their own which I confess attracts me more than all the brilliant improvements of the last sixty years. The two specimens of darned work on bobbin net, Plates 73 and 74, especially the latter, are remarkable for the beauty and variety of the work. Plate 75 and Plate 76 have specimens of the beautiful and intricate work called Tönder muslin lace made in Denmark in the eighteenth century. The following, Plate 77, is lace of the same kind but made in South Germany. I obtained these pieces in Leipzig forty years ago. Number 2, in Plate 76, has a design and fillings which almost recall those in the finest Alençon laces of the late seventeenth century. Plate 78 has four specimens of eighteenth-century Dutch linen lace made for caps; it is called Gouda lace; the fillings are very well done. In the Manila fibre lace, Plate 79, No. 1, the ground is entirely worked over by the needle into small squares, giving the appearance of network. This is done in the same way as the earlier tela tirata, the threads drawn together and sewn with wonderful regularity, without any thread being cut. The two specimens of needle-point, Plate 79, Nos. 2 and 3, made entirely of human hair, are rather difficult to render in a photograph. They are evidently copied from Venetian patterns, and the various shades of hair used have a very pretty effect, while the execution of such fine work in so fragile a material must have demanded extreme skill and deftness of hand. They were made about 1800, at the Bar Convent, York.