MODERN ENGLISH BINDING WITHIN the last five-and-twenty yeara there has been a marked revival in every de partment of applied art. The influence of William Morris, whose efforts in all the accessories of house decoration were for some time only recognized by the few, has now spread to all classes. No longer con- fined to the houses of the rich or of those who profess the cult of aesthetics, it is to be found with more or less of travesty in country rectories and suburban viIlas, catered for by the enterpriging tradesman on the monthly hire system. To those who remember vividly the early Victorian surroundings of the home and their prevailing ugliness, the complete change which has taken plae has hardly yet ceased to be a source of wonder. Nothing remains the same from mall-paper to coal-box, from bedroom to kitchen, all has suffered a sea change. In any examination of the pre- sent condition of the artistic crafts and the promise they present of future development on a sound basis, one...