For the rest, "Modern Aspects of Life and the Sense of Beauty" was originally addressed as the opening of a debate at the Pioneer Club, in which my late friend Lewis F. Day was my opponent, and my chief supporter was Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P.

"Art and the Commonweal" was an address to the Students of Art at Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the paper "On Some of the Arts allied to Architecture" was given before the Architectural Association. That "On the Study and Practice of Art" was delivered in Manchester before the Art School Committee and City authorities, and the "Notes on Animals in Art" to the Art Workers' Guild in London.

Walter Crane.

Kensington,

September 1911.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS WORK][3]
[THE ENGLISH REVIVAL IN DECORATIVE ART][47]
[THE SOCIALIST IDEAL AS A NEW INSPIRATION IN ART][83]
[ON THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ART][105]
[ON SOME OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS ALLIED TO ARCHITECTURE][125]
[NOTES ON COLOUR EMBROIDERY AND ITS TREATMENT][149]
[NOTES ON EARLY ITALIAN GESSO WORK][163]
[NOTES ON THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS IN ART][185]
[MODERN ASPECTS OF LIFE AND THE SENSE OF BEAUTY][207]
[A SHORT SURVEY OF THE ART OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,
CHIEFLY IN ENGLAND, WITH SOME NOTES ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS]		[223]
[ART AND THE COMMONWEAL][241]
[THE APOTHEOSIS OF "THE BUTTERFLY"][259]


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