astes, Bodies or Ceramic Articles Capable of being Decorated by
Vitrifiable Colours--The Chemical Preparation of Vitrifiable
Colours--Composition and Preparation of Vitrifiable Colours--The
Oxides--Preparation of Oxides--Preparation of Chromates--Preparation of
other Colours--Composition and Preparation of Fluxes--Muffle
Colours--Recipes for Colours--Use of Metals--Lustres--Preparation and
Application of Colours--Composition of Coloured Pastes--Underglaze
Colours--Colours in the Glaze--Overglaze Colours--Painting in
Vitrifiable Colours--Gilding--Burnishing--Printing--Enlarging and
Reducing Gelatine Prints--Muffle Kilns for Vitrifiable
Colours--Influence of the Material on the Colour--Changes Resulting from
the Actions of the Fire--Alterations Resulting from the
Colours--Alterations in Firing.

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=HOW TO ANALYSE CLAY.= Practical Methods for Practical Men. By HOLDEN M.
ASHBY, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Harvey Medical College, U.S.A.
Twenty Illustrations. 1898. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.

=Contents.=

List of Apparatus--List of Atomic Weights--Use of Balance, and Burette,
Sand Bath, and Water Bath--Dessicator--Drying
Oven--Filtering--Fusion--Determination of Water, Organic Matter, Iron,
Calcium, Alkalies, Limestone, Silica, Alumina, Magnesium,
etc.--Mechanical Analysis--Rational Analysis--Standard
Solutions--Volumetric Analysis--Standards for Clay Analysis--Sampling.

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=ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY.= Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-cottas,
Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware Mosaics, Faiences and
Architectural Stoneware. By LEON LOUVRE. With Five Plates. 950
Illustrations in the Text, and numerous estimates. 500 pp., royal 8vo.
1900. Translated from the French by K. H. BIRD, M.A., and W. MOORE
BINNS. Price 15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 17s. 6d.;
strictly net.

=Contents.=

Part I. =Plain Undecorated Pottery.=--Chapter I., Clays: Sec. 1,
Classification, General Geological Remarks.--Classification, Origin,
Locality; Sec. 2, General Properties and Composition: Physical Properties,
Contraction, Analysis, Influence of Various Substances on the Properties
of Clays; Sec. 3, Working of Clay-Pits--I. Open Pits: Extraction,
Transport, Cost--II. Underground Pits--Mining Laws. Chapter II.,
Preparation of the Clay: Weathering, Mixing, Cleaning, Crushing and
Pulverising--Crushing Cylinders and Mills, P