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WILLIAM MORRIS i
New HERE is a book that starts a dozen hares,
Oct"ioi4 any one ^ which would be worth catching
or hunting, at any rate, through a couple of
large-type columns. For a really good book
about William Morris is bound to raise those
questions that Morris made interesting and
his
disciples fashionable, and that our children,
we may hope, will one day make vital.
" How
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far can society affect art, or art society ?
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What might we have made of machinery
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and what has machinery made of us ?
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Was the nineteenth century a disaster or
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only a failure ? These are the questions
that it seems right and natural for a writer
who has made William Morris his peg to
discuss ; and if I discuss something quite
different it may look as though, forsaking
profitable hares, I were after a herring of my
own trailing. Yet, reading this book, I find
that the question that interests me most is :
" Why does Glutton Brock tend to overrate
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William Morris." By A. Glutton Brock. (Williams
University Library, is. net.)
146
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