the
celebrated Sevres manufactory, a fact which adds a good deal of
authority to the work."--_Builders Journal._

"The compiler displays that painstaking research characteristic of
his nation, and goes at length into the question of the chemical
constitution of the pigments and fluxes to be used in
glass-painting, proceeding afterwards to a description of the
methods of producing coloured glass of all tints and shades....
Very careful instructions are given for the chemical and mechanical
preparation of the colours used in glass-staining and
porcelain-painting; indeed, to the china painter such a book as
this should be of permanent value, as the author claims to have
tested and verified every recipe he includes, and the volume also
comprises a section devoted to enamels both opaque and translucent,
and another treating of the firing of porcelain, and the accidents
that occasionally supervene in the furnace."--_Daily Chronicle._

* * * * *

=A Reissue of

THE HISTORY OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES; AND THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF
THE MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.=

With References to Genuine Specimens, and Notices of Eminent Potters. By
SIMEON SHAW. (Originally Published in 1829.) 265 pp. 1900. Demy 8vo.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.

=Contents.=

=Introductory Chapter= showing the position of the Pottery Trade at the
present time (1899).--Chapters I., =Preliminary Remarks.=--II., =The
Potteries=, comprising Tunstall, Brownhills, Greenfield and New Field,
Golden Hill, Latebrook, Green Lane, Burslem, Longport and Dale Hall, Hot
Lane and Cobridge, Hanley and Shelton, Etruria, Stoke, Penkhull, Fenton,
Lane Delph, Foley, Lane End.--III., =On the Origin of the Art=, and its
Practice among the early Nations.--IV., =Manufacture of Pottery=, prior
to 1700.--V., =The Introduction of Red Porcelain= by Messrs. Elers, of
Bradwell, 1690.--VI., =Progress of the Manufacture= from 1700 to Mr.
Wedgwood's commencement in 1760.--VII. =Introduction of Fluid
Glaze.=--Extension of the Manufacture of Cream Colour.--Mr. Wedgwood's
Queen's Ware.--Jasper, and Appointment of Potter to Her Majesty.--Black
Printing.--VIII., =Introduction of Porcelain.= Mr. W. Littler's
Porcelain.--Mr. Cookworthy's Discovery of Kaolin and Petuntse, and
Patent.--Sold to Mr. Champion--resold to the Ne