House and Garden 
GROUP OF POTTERY BY THE PILK1NGTON TILE & POTTERY 
The one with relief figures, “The Four Seasons,” by Mr. Walter Crane 
to beware of sentimentality, and to try and find 
practical solutions of national problems. It is 
suggested that if we could go back 
sometimes 
to what now apj 
centuries a<ro, before 
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we should be healthier 
that if 
ar the ideal conditions of 
the invention of machinery, 
and happier. It is unde¬ 
niable that machinery is responsible for the awful 
condition of indus¬ 
trial art, which has 
not yet probably 
reached its culmina¬ 
tion; hut it is the 
abuse of its power 
in the race for 
wealth that has 
brought us to such 
a pass. I he power 
of machinery ena¬ 
bles us to indulge 
in the use of im¬ 
proper materials, in 
a redundance of or¬ 
nament and above 
all, in the reproduc¬ 
tion in cheap form of 
luxuries and works of art, till our senses are 
dulled and national taste is vitiated almost beyond 
recovery. The problem is how to revive our sense 
of honest handicraft, and pick up the threads of tra¬ 
dition for the forming of a natural taste, not that of 
the cultivated classes only, hut a democratic and 
universal one. It is doubtful if we shall advance 
co. 
CHINA CABINET IN ENGLISH OAK. WROUGHT IRON CANDLE¬ 
STICKS AND STANDARD, BY MR. ERNEST W. GIMSON 
WALNUT SIDEBOARD, DESIGNED BY MISS JULIA H1LLIAM, 
WROUGHT IRON CANDLESTICKS B V “ THE ARTIFICERS’ GUILD 
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