Tools and Materials Required--Wire Used for Rivets--Soldering Solution--Preparation for Drilling--Commencement of Drilling--Cementing--Preliminaries to Riveting--Rivets to Make--To Fix the Rivets--Through-and-through Rivets--Soldering--Tinning a Soldering-iron--Perforated Plates, Handles, etc.--Handles of Ewers, etc.--Vases and Comports--Marble and Alabaster Ware--Decorating--How to Loosen Fast Decanter Stoppers--China Cements. =NOTES OF POTTERY CLAYS.= Their Distribution, Properties, Uses and Analyses of Ball Clays, China Clays and China Stone. By JAS. FAIRIE, F.G.S. 1901. 132 pp. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net. =Contents.= Definitions--Occurrence--Brick Clays--Fire Clays--Analyses of Fire Clays.--=Ball Clays=--Properties--Analyses--Occurrence--Pipe Clay--Black Clay--Brown Clay--Blue Clay--Dorsetshire and Devonshire Clays.--=China Clay= or Kaolin--Occurrence--Chinese Kaolin--Cornish Clays--Hensbarrow Granite--Properties, Analyses and Composition of China Clays--Method of Obtaining China Clay--Experiments with Chinese Kaolin--Analyses of Chinese and Japanese Clays and Bodies--Irish Clays.--=Chinese Stone=--Composition--Occurrence--Analyses.--Index. * * * * * =PAINTING ON GLASS AND PORCELAIN AND ENAMEL PAINTING.= A Complete Introduction to the Preparation of all the Colours and Fluxes used for Painting on Porcelain, Enamel, Faience and Stoneware, the Coloured Pastes and Coloured Glasses, together with a Minute Description of the Firing of Colours and Enamels. On the Basis of Personal Practical Experience of the Condition of the Art up to Date. By FELIX HERMANN, Technical Chemist. With Eighteen Illustrations. 300 pp. Translated from the German second and enlarged Edition. 1897. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net. =Contents.= History of Glass Painting.--Chapters I., The Articles to be Painted: Glass, Porcelain, Enamel, Stoneware, Faience.--II., Pigments: 1, Metallic Pigments: Antimony Oxide, Naples Yellow, Barium Chromate, Lead Chromate, Silver Chloride, Chromic Oxide.--III., Fluxes: Fluxes, Felspar, Quartz, Purifying Quartz, Sedimentation, Quenching, Borax, Boracic Acid, Potassium and Sodium Carbonates, Rocaille Flux.--IV., Preparation of the Colours for Glass Painting.--V., The Colour Pastes.--VI., The Coloured Glasses.--VII., Composition of the Porcelain Colours.--VIII., The Enamel Colours: Enamels for Artistic Work.--IX., Metallic Ornamentation: Porcelain Gilding, Glass Gilding.--X., Firing the Colours: 1, Remarks on Firing: Firing Colours on Glass. Firing Colours on Porcelain; 2, The Muffle.--XI., Accidents occasionally Supervening during the Process of Firing.--XII., Remarks on the Different Methods of Painting on Glass, Porcelain, etc.--Appendix: Cleaning Old Glass Paintings. =Press Opinions.=