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Excerpt from The Century Guild Hobby Horse, Vol. 1: April, 1884 IN case our Hobby Horse ride out, unknown to us, into circles beyond those compassing personal friends, we think it well, by way of introduction, to give to such new acquaintance some fair notion of the intention and character of our union; some unburdening of our hobbies; some reasons for riding them now and again through a public highway - a highway that is too frequently, a veritable rotten row.' The few members of the Century Guild are all artists of one craft or another; each therefore known best through his own craft: though also here to be somewhat known by joint literary work in which each will, from time to time, when fate compels, come forward, say his say, and then retire to his studio, hoping to meet his reader there, no publisher between to make a chilling third. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.