ABSTRACT
More fertile is the effort to find special cloths for special books, to enlarge the number of fabrics from which the binder may choose. The very step in advance which M. Octave Uzanne urged upon the artistic bookbinders of France has been taken by the commercial bookbinders of America; and author are constantly seeing new stuffs impressed into the service. M. Uzanne claims the invention of the cartonnage a la Pompadour, the clothing of a light and lively tale of the eighteenth century in a brocade or a damask of the period. Charles Scribner's Sons in a half-binding of some woven material such as is used in the nursery for the pinafores of childhood; and the same publisher covered Mr. Riis's stimulating account of "How the Other Half Lives," with a stuff very like that from which the labourer's overalls are made, a most appropriate garment for a book like Mr. Riis's. Messrs.
