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...ones for French and English-speaking countries. Printing first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because European scholars and critics of authority collaborated in their making. Craftsmen admire them because their reproductions are the result of painstaking care and patience which has often extended to six months' labor on a single plate...
...schooling ended when the U. S. entered the World War. Repurchasing its stock from Zeiss, Bausch & Lomb tackled a job no other U. S. concern has ever attempted-matching German precision in making optical instruments. Today, with some 4,000 workers and a select inner circle of German-trained craftsmen, the Rochester lensmakers turn out lenses ground accurate to a millionth of an inch, at a profit of about a million dollars a year. Since 1926 when Founder J. J. Bausch died, the company has been headed by Son Edward, chairman of the board, now 83 and still active enough...
...Grammar of Chinese Lattice" by Daniel Sheets Dye of the West China Union University, two volumes, 468 pages, 226 plates, $10.00. Artists, designers and all sorts of craftsmen will welcome this collection of nearly 2500 designs of lattice windows, the result of more than 20 years study on the part of the author...
...portfolio of twelve paintings by the most renowned woman painter in the U. S., Georgia O'Keeffe. Approved even by irascible Husband Alfred Stieglitz, the color reproductions of O'Keeffe's suave, austere leaves, peonies and roses were comparable to the famed reproductions of Viennese craftsmen...
From his farm near Ambler, Pa., Henry Lee Willet drives every day into West Philadelphia where he has a big, three-story studio and about 20 craftsmen working full-time on jobs which at the moment include windows for Minneapolis, St. Louis and Louisville. He pays apprentices $12 a week, experienced artists as much as $85, mechanics according to the union scale, which is $1 per hr. in Philadelphia. Like Lawrence Saint, he is a Presbyterian elder, recently persuaded the Presbytery of Philadelphia North to establish a committee of social action. He and Saint are good friends but he thinks...