New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-30
The Roy croft IL ca Of
Work Under Beauti.
full Condition.
Was the T ra's
Big Achieve
memt.

Literature should be the product o!ss
r;pened mind-the mind that knows the vxa |
Of men and which has grappled with ezss
problems.
Writers who possess piercing insightcn |
the heart Of things, and who have the coInw
to express themselves regardless OF the vsT
of others. are well feared by men in pose
The man who knows. who can think ard NO
can write. holds the sword Of Damocles "r
every politician. Governments are hoig'
corbed with vulnerable spots; and 10 ssr'
the ready writer on your side is the pan
wisdom
Public opinion rules. No law that is TO-
trary to the 'Zetgeist' can be eniofr1
Judges translate and interpret the laws to suit
the spirit of the times. Every man who spas
out loud and clear is tinting the Zeitssa
Every man who expresses what he honesty
thinks is true is changing the spirit OF n'
times Thinkers help other people to nnH
for they formulate what others are thinn1s
No person writes or thinks alone-thougHs
in the air, but its expresslo necessSF~
create a tanCible spirit OF the t..Aes. The uiH
of thinker who writes, or a writer vno
thinks. is that he supplies arguments iof u'
people and confirms all who are on his VIC
in opinions often before uttered.
"All literature is advertising. And al ga
uine advertisements are literature. The ana0'
advertises men, times, places, deeds, eso'c
and things. His appeal is to the unive'1
human soul II he does not know the neN'
throbs Of men and women, their hopes, w.
ambitions. tastes. needs and desires, bis Won
will interest no one but himself and his "
mring friends
The foregoing is as near a Statement )"
the policy of the magazines as can be ms''
at this time 1t is the idea of the Royero'@'
that the spirit of Ebert Hubbard vii 90
permeate the text Of his well loved Fra "'
"Phlistine."
THE LITTLE EDITION DE LUKE ~
SUCCEED ALICE HUBBARD.
Miriam Hubbard will succeed her uotha
hostess of the Roycroft Inn. The require
ments which will distinguish writers tor 'A
periodicals will also apply 70 the speaA''
who will be invited to appear in the Koyo''
Salon The present summer has been
ranged for. William Marion Reedy, OF ~
St. Louis Mirror" and others will not tan
keep their engagements at Roycroit, e ''
though the Fra has made his last n'
journey
The Roycroft Farm will be operated q
source of supply for he Inn and place .
guests to make the genial acquaintance Oh
Berkshires and the Jerseys
The Roycrofters-at-large who summer
East Aurora will miss the hearty hand-e1
of the Fra and the gentleness OF Alice ~
bard They will see in Miriam, who IS t"e'
and fair and fine, much Of her mother.
In Ebert Hubbard, jr., who IS IN MS cal
thirties, there is deal OF the fathers oe''
mination for success. He is now the exeeuu
in chief.
These young folk are not deceived as
their difficulties. Their ambition IS 10 open
a creditable print shop, to produce afu'
handicraft articles and to maintain an
which will endear itself to guests 10 u
advantage OF the fame of Roycroft thfou
advertising, and TO live up to the hthog1sp
is the plan
1t will be different Roycroft because Oh
adjustment from a background for uni'
personality to an institution TO stand on
own merits.
Nature never rhymes her children
makes two men alike" said Ralph wa
Emerson. There is no successor 10 t''
Hubbard, but the Roycrott is his worSs
monument And the thousands who 10
them will make little journeys to
arA