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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ops. These embrace many of the domesticarts, other than those connected with food and clothing.There are jewellers, metal smiths of all kinds, enamellers,woodcarvers, cabinet-makers, printers and book-binders. Thedesigns are frequently those of the workmen themselves,and one of the most valuable traditions which they havereceived from Morris is that a thing should be useful as weHas beautiful, that it has not fulfilled the demands of true art ifits utility is lost amid an elaboration of merely decorativeflourishes. Nor is the Guild forgetful of its mcmljcrs when the hours ofthe workshop are over. An arts and crafts school has beenestablished, athletic clubs formed, a bathing lake constructed,and a Craftsmans Club instituted, where books and newspapersmay be read, and where essays on literary and artistic subjectsare welcomed and criticised. In the winter there are dancesand social parties ; a brave attempt has even been made totread the learned stage, and 1 suppose that the Town Hall,
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A Courtyard at Cliippi^ Campdcn. igo A TIMELY WARNING chap. Chipping Campden, is the only place in which Jonsons NewInn has been ^\^tnessed, since it was most negligently played and more squeamishly censurd in the poets own day. O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint, Campdenides ! Inthe modern Arcadia the voice of Pan is too often silent, and itwould be difficult to rate too highly the accession to the smallcountry town of a company of eager and enthusiastic workers—men whose interest in life is not sapped by the crushing monotonyof merely mechanical labour. Already, too, there have been .signs of what may be called the conservative influence of thepresence of the Guild. New cottages have been built in thespirit and character of the High Street, and old houses untilrecently in ruin have been carefully repaired, and given new life.Indeed it was none too soon to show what may be done in thisdirection, for the solid house of grey stone, the pride ofCampden for so many generations, is

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