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	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: There 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