ers
have produced commendable creations by their handicraft. This new
jewelry is partly identified with what might be termed the general
arts and crafts movement, but, as is always the case with efforts of
this kind that become known under a popular name, many unworthy deeds
are done under its banner by the careless, the deceptive, or the
undisciplined, whose products, heralded by them as " artistic," are
worse than " commercial." Pretenders can easily impose upon the
uneducated. But honest efforts are being made by pioneers with high
ideals to properly instill them into the minds of student craftsmen,
and to train their hands to a degree of skill that will measure up to
the higher standard, which hopeful reformers are trying to set for the
jewelry of the future. The efforts of these idealists of the arts and
crafts movement deserve the respect, the encouragement, and the
co-operation of gem dealers and of the jewelry trade throughout. As it
has been well said by Professor Oliver Cum-mings Farrington in his Gems and Gem Minerals:
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is room, however, for the development of a much higher taste in these
matters than exists at present. The average buyer is content to know
