Word: craftsmen
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...books and magazines for the kind of personal interpretation in black and white, which a generation and more ago called into being Kingsley, King, Church, Kruel, and a host of others whose names were then household words. To the rising generation the very names of those honorable artists and craftsmen are almost unknown. The once flourishing school of American wood-engravers has virtually dwindled to two: Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf, whose art is called into service by only a very few magazine publishers and by occasional collectors and amateurs, who still prefer the once popular engraving to the photograph...
...wish to prepare for positions in the printing or publishing business or in the allied trades. The courses of instruction which have been planned deal with both the artistic and the mechanical side of printing and its allied trades, the object being not that of turning out accomplished craftsmen but rather that of giving the students such a knowledge of fundamental principles and their application as will make them readier learners and more progressive and open minded in dealing with the large problems of printing and it allied trades...
...subject upon which greater or less stress should be placed; of selecting more than a score of authors to whom the compilation of the individual volumes has been entrusted; and of coordinating the whole into a homogeneous unit. Efforts to fuse together the handiwork of several literary craftsmen have not as a rule been wholly satisfactory: the outcome has too often been an encyclopoedic production, abounding in gaps and marred by glaring unevenness in quality. In The American Nation, however, Professor Hart has made it his editorial duty to have the various links of the chain wrought with some approach...
...Nature's Craftsmen," by H. C. McCook...
...monuments are not to be judged by the same standard as for instance, the Parthenon frieze. They are probably the work of mere craftsmen. Many, nevertheless, possess great beauty, though they vary much among themselves. It has been suggested that they were kept in stock, but there is no proof of this theory, and the fact that the figures are evidently intended to represent particular persons militates strongly against...