The excellent work of the New Harmony press proves that good craftsmanship was encouraged and appreciated in the early days. The _Gazette_, and its successor, the _Disseminator_, are models of accurate and tasteful typography, and the books published from this isolated village are even more creditable. Say’s “American Conchology” was wholly printed at New Harmony, the title page bearing date 1830. Its copious illustrations are the work of New Harmony lithographers, and the tinting of the engravings, which was done by Mrs. Say, reproduces accurately the delicate shadings of the shells. Her colors are still fresh and true in copies of this work. Parts of Say’s “American Entomology,” which he had begun at Philadelphia, were finished at New Harmony. Maclure was an industrious writer, and the imprint of the New Harmony press is found in two substantial volumes, one dated 1831, the other 1837, in which he collected short essays on innumerable topics. Josiah Warren was for a time at least the New Harmony publisher, and Michaux’s “North American Sylva” was reprinted by him from plates brought from Paris by Maclure, though the unbound sheets of the New Harmony edition were consumed by fire. Warren was a reformer as well as a publisher. He was connected with New Harmony for a short time in community days, but left, returning in 1842 to establish a “time store.” In the “time store” he sold merchandise to none who could not return the actual cash cost, plus a profit which must be paid in a “labor note.” This form of currency represented a specified number of hours of labor, pledged by mechanics or others. When a customer entered his shop and began discussing a purchase, Warren started a clock which marked the amount of time consumed in the sale: this was the basis for computing the merchant’s profit. Warren could often be seen in the streets of New Harmony with large amounts of labor currency. This medium of exchange required careful handling, as some would appraise their labor too high, and now and then depreciation followed an over-issue by some careless or unscrupulous individual. Warren conducted this enterprise for about two years, departing to carry the gospel of “equitable commerce,” as he called it, elsewhere.