Transcribed from the 1919 Longmans, Green and Co. edition byDavid Price,
POCKET EDITION
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEWYORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
1919
1st Edition, | Ellis & White, | 1882 |
2nd ,, | do. | 1883 |
3rd ,, | do. | 1883 |
4th ,, | Longmans | 1896 |
5th ,, | do. | 1898 |
6th ,, | do. | 1903 |
7th ,, | do. | 1911 |
Included in Longmans’Pocket
Library, February 1919
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The Lesser Arts | |
The Art of the People | |
The Beauty of Life | |
Making the Best of It | |
The Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation |
Hereafter I hope in another lectureto have the pleasure of laying before you an historical survey ofthe lesser, or as they are called the Decorative Arts, and I mustconfess it would have been pleasanter to me to have begun my talkwith you by entering at once upon the subject of the history ofthis great industry; but, as I have something to say in a thirdlecture about various matters connected with the practice ofDecoration among ourselves in these days, I feel that I should bein a false position before you, and one that might lead toconfusion, or overmuch explanation, if I did not let you knowwhat I think on the nature and scope of these arts, on theircondition at the present time, and their outlook in times tocome. In doing this it is like enough that I shall saythings with which you will very much disagree; I must ask youtherefore from the outset to believe that whatever I may blame orwhatever I may praise, I neither, when I think of what historyhas been, am inclined to lament the past, to despise the present,or despair of the future; that I believe all the change and stirabout us is a sign of the world’s life, and th