... THE VANISHED ART OF THE SAMPLER. WHICH CHILDISH FINGERS WORKED LONG YEARS AGO. Behold these 'broideries. Finer you never saw. To the majority of people the word sampler merely conveys a vague idea of a square of more or less coarse canvas exhibiting a cross-stitch alphabet, a row of numerals, perhaps a house, or some weird, heraldic beasts below, and a moral aphorism as a tag. But as a matter ...