Prospect on approaching France.--Present and Past.--The Ancient Celts.--Under the Romans.--Middle Ages.--Poitou, Beauvais, and Hesdin.--Italian Influence.--A National Art.--Bernard Palissy, Barbizet, Pull, and Avisseau.--Henri Deux Ware.--Rouen.--Nevers.--Moustiers.--Marseilles.--Strasburg.--Limoges. --Haviland’s New Process.--Examples.--Bourg-la-Reine.--Laurin.--Deck. --Colinot.--Creil. --Montereau.--Longwy.--Parville.--Gien.--Sarreguemines. --Niederviller.--Luneville.--Nancy.--St. Clement.--St. Amand.--Paris.--Sceaux. --PORCELAIN: Efforts to Make Porcelain.--First Artificial Porcelain.--St. Cloud.--Lille.--Paris.--Chantilly.--Mennecy.--Vincennes.--Sèvres.--Natural, or Hard, Porcelain.--Discovery of Kaolin.--Various Factories.--Limoges. --Deck.--Regnault.--Solon.--Pate Changeante.--Pate-sur-Pate.....271 CHAPTER VI. GERMANY AND CENTRAL EUROPE. Early Pottery.--Lake Dwellers.--Early German.--Peculiar Shapes.--How Peasants Account for Relics.--Roman Epoch.--Tin Enamel.--Leipsic.--Breslau.--Nuremberg.--The Hirschvogels.--Villengen.--Höchst.--Marburg.--Bavaria.--Switzerland. --Belgium.--Delft.--STONE-WARE: Countess Jacqueline.--Teylingen.--Graybeards.--Fine Stone-ware.--Grès de Flandre.--Creussen.--PORCELAIN: Böttcher.--His First Productions.--Meissen Porcelain.--Decoration.--Best Days of Meissen.--Its Decline.--Vienna.--Höchst.--Fürstenburg.--Höxter.--Frankenthal. --Nymphenburg.--Berlin.--Holland.--Weesp.--Loosdrecht.--The Hague.--Switzerland.--Zürich.--Nyon.....327 CHAPTER VII. RUSSIA, DENMARK, AND SCANDINAVIA. Scandinavian Pottery allied to Teutonic.--Hand-shaped Vessels.--Primitive Kiln.--The Eighteenth Century.--St. Petersburg: Its Porcelain.--Moscow.--Rorstrand.--Marieberg.--Modern Swedish Faience.--Denmark.--Kiel.--Copenhagen.--Imitations of Greek.--Copenhagen Porcelain.....344 CHAPTER VIII. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.