instead of each other. He makes furniture as well as 

 books, and when you see it you want to sit on it if it is a 

 bench, or eat from it if it is a table. Everything made here 

 speaks of home, not the studied, fixed-up home with be- 

 dizened chairs from which the gilt peels guiltily off, 

 when you look at them, straight-backed sofas, tidies, 

 throws and doilies scattered everywhere, ready to fasten 

 themselves to your back and elope with you when you 

 leave. No, but articles that are grand in their propor- 

 tions, simple, solid, substantial and artistic. As with the 

 books I will not try to describe them, get some of that 

 furniture and it will tell its own story, I don't know how. 

 Q" What does he propose?" I don't know. He does n't 

 propose to turn the tide on which men float to ruin, but 

 he does try to turn the strugglers and help them battle 

 against the tide by causing them to do, and have respect 

 for honest labor. He is reviving the lost art of illumin- 

 ing books by hand, and is doing it well: he is inspir- 

 ing a love of the beautiful and artistic as well as the 

 useful. The last day I was there I saw men hand-tooling 

 books making a hundred different marks and scrolls 

 on the binding, doing it by hand, no two books alike. 

 There is an individuality about the Roycroft books that 

 you find nowhere else between covers, or on pages. 

 When I turned away from the workmen, and I did it re- 

 luctantly, a black spaniel stood at my heels and followed 

 me down stairs. No one molested him: he walked around 

 there as unreservedly as I did. Going down stairs we, 

 the dog and I, met a little curly-haired girl going up. She 

 had an armful of flowers. I asked her if she was bring- 

 ing them in to her sister or her papa. She shook her curls, 

 laughed and said: "No, just fetchin' 'em in for 'em all." 

 Q If that child, while in the Shop, saw a box of paints, a 

 brush and sheet of paper, she might test her ability and 

 suit her fancy in painting a leaf for one of the books you 

 get from the Roycrofters. If she did it well she would be 

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