Lead working as an art for the expression of beauty through material, with this ancestry of nearly two thousand years of beautiful workmanship behind it here in England, has in the present century been entirely killed out. Only one simple present use of lead can be mentioned as having the characteristic of an art--the expression of personal thought by the worker to give pleasure. This is nothing but the lining of stairs and floor spaces with sheet lead nailed with rows of copper nails, some examples of which are done with a certain taste. Pipe heads and other objects of a somewhat ornamental kind have recently been made again, but we must remember that ornament is not art, and these have only been carefully, painfully, “executed” to the architect’s drawings. The plumber’s art, as it was, for instance, when the Guild of Plumbers was formed, a craft to be graced by the free fancy of the worker, is a field untilled. That someone may again take up this fine old craft of lead-working as an artist and original worker, refusing to follow “designs” compiled by another from imperfectly understood old examples, but expressing only himself--this has been my chief hope in preparing the little book NOW CONCLUDED. MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO.’S BOOKS FOR TECHNICAL CLASSES. =DRAWING AND DESIGN.= A Class Text-book for Beginners. By E. R. TAYLOR. Head Master of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. With Illustrations. Oblong crown 8vo, 5_s._ net. =ELEMENTS OF HANDICRAFT AND DESIGN.= By W. A. S. BENSON, M.A. Oxon. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5_s._ net. =A TEXT-BOOK OF NEEDLEWORK, KNITTING AND CUTTING-OUT.= With Methods of Teaching. By Miss ELIZABETH ROSEVEAR, Senior Teacher, and Lecturer on Needlework, Training College, Stockwell, London. With Original Illustrations and Sectional Diagrams. Crown 8vo, 6_s._ _SATURDAY REVIEW._--“A very useful book of reference for teachers of elementary sewing classes.” _SCHOOLMASTER._--“This is a remarkably clever and practical text-book on Needlework.” _QUEEN._--“It has been carefully prepared by an intellectual teacher, expert in the art of demonstration lessons, and anxious to impart to others the results of her experience as Senior Teacher and Lecturer at Stockwell Training College.” =A PRIMER OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY.= By EDITH A. BARNETT and H. C. O’NEILL. Pott 8vo, 1_s._ _SCOTSMAN._--“It is in its way unique among school books, touching the fringe of a great variety of subjects--hygiene, economics, physiology, cooking, medicine, and the sciences dealing with money. Of these it says a little that every housekeeper ought to know, and opens the way for more. It is an admirable school book.” _SATURDAY REVIEW._--“A capital little book for the young householder.”