d, an art of peasants
rather than of merchant princes or courtiers, it must be a hard
heart, I think, that does not love it: whether a man has been born
among it like ourselves, or has come wonderingly on its simplicity
from all the grandeur over-seas.

* * * * *

And Science, we have loved her well, and followed her diligently,
what will she do? I fear she is so much in the pay of the
counting-house, the counting-house and the drill-sergeant, that she
is too busy, and will for the present do nothing.

Yet there are matters which I should have thought easy for her, say
for example teaching Manchester how to consume its own smoke, or
Leeds how to get rid of its superfluous black dye without turning it
into the river, which would be as much worth her attention as the
production of the heaviest of heavy black silks, or the biggest of
useless guns. Anyhow, however it be done, unless people care about
carrying on their business without making the world hideous, how can
they care about art? I know it will cost much both of time and money
to better these things even a little; but I do not see how these
can be better spent than in making life cheerful & honourable for
others and for ourselves; and the gain of good life to the country
at large that would result from men seriously setting about the
bettering of the decency of our big towns would be priceless, even
if nothing specially good befell the arts in consequence: I do not
know that it would; but I should begin to think matters hopeful if
men turned their attention to such things, and I repeat that, unless
they do so, we can scarcely even begin with any hope our endeavours
for the bettering of the Arts. (From the lecture called The Lesser
Arts, in Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris, pages 22 and
33.)

[Illustration: Kelmscott

William Morris]

The "Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott
Press," the last book printed at the Kelmscott Press, contains a few
errors in the "Bibliography." These errors have been allowed to stand in
reprinting the "Note" here, in order that the reprint shall be a literal
one.

Mr. S. C. Cockerell, the former Secretary of the Kelmscott Press, has
kindly sent a list of these corrections, which appear below:

Page 19, line 21--"Golden type" should be inserted after "8vo."

Page 30, line 16--"June 26, 1893," should b