That is the truth and yet it is not quite true. What it really means is that when men are devoted to their work there will still remain a wide difference of opinion as to methods, treatments of the subject, the baffling question of form achieved or not achieved--the question of when a craftsman’s work becomes also a work of art. These are old questions about which all craftsmen have always struggled among themselves. It is all a queer and fascinating game just as life itself is queer and fascinating. The real reward I fancy lies just in the work itself, nowhere else. If you cannot get it there, you will not get it at all. And speaking for my craft I can say that it is tremendously worth while. You are undertaking a task that can never be finished. You are starting on a road that has no end. The longest life will be too short to ever really get you anywhere near what you want. And that I should say is the best part of the story. _One thousand copies of this book have been printed for The Lantern Press, San Francisco, (Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.) by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. Nine hundred & fifty copies are on B. R. Book Paper, numbered from 51 to 1000, and fifty on Japan Vellum, numbered from 1 to 50._ [Illustration] _This is copy number_ 185 * * * * * Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: ever do as as=> ever do as {pg 23} worked in the the=> worked in the {pg 26} no absollute standards=> no absolute standards {pg 43}