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 be "June 26, 1896." Page 39, line 17--after "guineas" insert "ten on vellum at ten guineas." Page 40, line 31--for "eight leaflets" read, "nine or ten leaflets." Page 44, line 12--omit "Lady." HERE ENDS THE ART AND CRAFT OF PRINTING; COLLECTED ESSAYS BY WILLIAM MORRIS. OF THIS BOOK THERE HAVE BEEN PRINTED TWO HUNDRED AND TEN COPIES BY CLARKE CONWELL AT THE ELSTON PRESS: FINISHED THIS THIRTIETH DAY OF JANUARY MDCCCCII. SOLD BY CLARKE CONWELL AT THE ELSTON PRESS, PELHAM ROAD, NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: For "A Note on Founding the Kelmscott Press" Page 4: "trangress" changed to "transgress": "Modern printers systematically transgress against it" Page 5: "artitcle" changed to "article": "the foregoing article was written" Page 5: "Pysche" changed to "Psyche": "Cupid and Psyche" Page 7: "rubicated" changed to "rubricated": "left blank to be rubricated by hand" Page 12: "handmade" changed to "hand-made": "English hand-made paper"