Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

66 ART AND HANDICRAFT resulting from emulation, while it fosters the excellencies of technique. American china decoration is not as wide in its scope as either the modern French or English schools, and certainly has not given us what we have a right to expect from so much and such excellent practice, namely, a development of design and method which shall be as characteristic of American thought as is shown in manufact- ure of silver and other metals, in embroideries, in illustration of literature, in design for textiles and wall-hangings, and in other EMBROIDERED WHITE SILK CUSHION. Made by H. R. H. Princess Louise, of Denmark. directions of applied art. The one original development is that of the Rookwood pottery, exquisite specimens of which are to be seen in the Cincinnati Room. The glazes and colors, the lustrousness, the almost iridescent shadings place this ware very high in the history of modern production. In book-covers and illustrations the largest number belongs to the exhibit of the applied arts of New York, Boston, and Phila- delphia. It is noticeable and delightful that some of the book- covers exhibited are not merely copies or imitations of those of any style or period preeminent in the art of book-binding, but,