House and Garden 
Vol. IX 
MAY, 1906 
No. 5 
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION 
LONDON, 1906 
By Mabel Cox 
r I 'HE Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society opened 
-*■ its eighth exhibition on January the 15th at 
the Grafton Galleries under the distinguished Presi¬ 
dency of Mr. Walter Crane. At the private view, 
which was crowded and where most of the promo¬ 
ters and upholders of the movement were seen, two 
things, plainly, were universally felt. One was the 
strangeness of the new quarters, for owing to its 
long association with the 
New Gallery, everybody 
has come to think of it as 
the home of the “ Arts 
and Crafts;” the other was 
the gap that is still felt to 
exist, and it is safe to say always will be felt to exist 
by all who shared the joys and sorrows of the society 
in its early days—the gap caused by the loss of the 
beloved personality of its former leader—William 
Morris. 
In reviewing the work of this Society (now in its 
eighteenth year) which has been one of the impor¬ 
tant powers in the development of that wave of feel¬ 
ing for, that reaction to¬ 
wards, handicraft and a 
general simplification of 
conditions of life by which 
we hope to signify a renas¬ 
cence of art, it is necessary 
MEMORIAL TABLET TO COMMEMORATE A VISIT FROM HERBERT SPENCER. BY JOHN WILLIAMS AND B. J. COLSON 
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