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Show t · " sat' d Mr · Browntng, A Dream and "Pay her for it, pay her or hit, d ne the best she A Prophecy "and give I. t to me-she as o could." h come each three And so, for several years, ash. ld woman who bbl' h r cane t IS o months, ho tng on ~ fi 11' carries away her sil-deposits her work and J0Y ~ J ver knotted in a handkerchie · through the BrownBut most of the work that pa.sfisels and goes to those · 1 · ely beautl u ing Memona 1s rar I ugh (or not) the . And strange y eno who covet 1t. d . better nor more beau- 1. f the lace ma e ts no f qua tty o b h nuns in the convents o tiful than that madeh Y t e things you cannot im-h M'ddl Ages T ere are f . t e 1 oen You· cannot b e tter the work o Phr ax.i t-prove up . bl f th Greeks are at once t e tn-el~ s. '_fhe mar oese~ss ta:talization of every man who spuauon and h P hisel and mallet to stone. In models in clay or puts c the Golden Rule. "In phiethics you cannot better ·ll-it is all losophy," says Emers~~' "say what you wt to be found in Plato. . h And in book-making we cannot tmprove on t e k f the Venetians or that of the Monks of the wMoidr dloe Ages. All we have gat. ne d h as b een t· n sp ee. d -and what we have gained in speed we have lost tn §:w:~· find William Morris, that sanest of all me~ of modern times, that man who could do more thtngs 16 and do them well than any man of the Nineteenth A Dream and Century, going back to the method of the Olden A Prophecy Time in making books. He made the matrices for his type himself, and with his friend, Burne-J ones, cut initials and ornaments in wood for head-bands, tail-pieces and title pages, and these books were printed on paper made from pure linen rags, made just as paper was made in the Thirteenth Century. And the helpers who made these books found a joy in their work; & something more than a living wage. And behold, the people who loved good books proved more numerous than was at first supposedand they bought the books and paid for them. In making these books, it was the constant motto: "How good can they be made ?-not how cheap." ~ Once upon a day, a woman of noble birth in England showed a friend a lace scarf made at the "Browning Memorial," and this woman said, "I would rather have this one piece of good lace than a house full of lace made by a machine." Then she held up a Kelmscott Book, printed on Vellum, and said, " I would rather have this one book than a thousand forty-nine-cent books bought at a haberdasher's I" And there were many of like opinion. And so the manufacturers of furniture and laces and cloth and books, gradually awoke to the fact that there were some people who preferred to have 17 |