tions--Urinals, Seats and
Pans--Applications--Drinking-fountains, Washstands. Index.

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=A TREATISE ON THE CERAMIC INDUSTRIES.=

A Complete Manual for Pottery, Tile and Brick Works. By EMILE BOURRY,
Ingenieur des Arts et Manufactures. Translated from the French by WILTON
P. RIX, Examiner in Pottery and Porcelain to the City and Guilds of
London Technical Institute, Pottery Instructor to the Hanley School
Board. Royal 8vo. 1901. Over 700 pp. Price 21s.; India and Colonies,
22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.

=Contents.=

Part I., =General Pottery Methods.= Chapters I., Definition and History.
Definitions and Classification of Ceramic Products--Historic Summary of
the Ceramic Art.--II., Raw Materials of Bodies. Clays: Pure Clay and
Natural Clays--Various Raw Materials: Analogous to Clay--Agglomerative
and Agglutinative--Opening--Fusible--Refractory--Trials of Raw
Materials.--III., Plastic Bodies. Properties and
Composition--Preparation of Raw Materials:
Disaggregation--Purification--Preparation of Bodies: By Plastic
Method--By Dry Method--By Liquid Method.--IV., Formation. Processes of
Formation: Throwing--Expression--Moulding by Hand, on the Jolley, by
Compression, by Slip Casting--Slapping--Slipping.--V., Drying. Drying of
Bodies--Processes of Drying: By Evaporation--By Aeration--By Heating--By
Ventilation--By Absorption.--VI., Glazes. Composition and
Properties--Raw Materials--Manufacture and Application.--VII., Firing.
Properties of the Bodies and Glazes during Firing--Description of the
Kilns--Working of the Kilns.--VIII., Decoration. Colouring
Materials--Processes of Decoration.

Part II., =Special Pottery Methods.= Chapters IX., Terra Cottas.
Classification: Plain Ordinary, Hollow, Ornamental, Vitrified, and Light
Bricks--Ordinary and Black Tiles--Paving Tiles--Pipes--Architectural
Terra Cottas--Vases, Statues and Decorative Objects--Common
Pottery--Pottery for Water and Filters--Tobacco Pipes--Lustre
Ware--Properties and Tests for Terra Cottas.--X., Fireclay Goods.
Classification: Argillaceous, Aluminous, Carboniferous, Silicious and
Basic Fireclay Goods--Fireclay Mortar (Pug)--Tests for Fireclay
Goods.--XI. Faiences. Varnished Faiences--Enamelled Faiences--Silicious
Faiences--Pipeclay Faiences--Pebble Work--Feldspathic
Faiences--Composition, Processes of Manufacture and General Arrangements
of Faience Potteries.--XII., Stoneware. Stoneware Properly So-ca