William Morris.

The article presents information on the life of William Morris in tone of almost lyrical enthusiasm. When William Morris went up to Oxford in 1853, bearing with him the humors of a strange romantic boyhood in epping Forest. William Morris made a friendship at the university, which colored all the rest of his life. When he took his examination at Oxford, there sat beside him in the Hall of Exeter, a boy from Birmingham, Edward Burne Jones, the future artist, with whom and three or four others was to be formed the Brotherhood. For him the future was determined by an esthetic irritability that was not so much the all eliminating impulse of the great artist as an indiscriminate hankering after beauty and by a certain fluidity of temperament.