#Introductory.# Light -- White Light -- The Spectrum -- The Invisible Spectrum -- Normal Spectrum -- Simple Nature of Pure Spectral Colour -- The Recomposition of White Light -- Primary and Complementary Colours -- Coloured Bodies -- Absorption Spectra -- #The Application of Pigments.# Uses of Pigments: Artistic, Decorative, Protective -- Methods of Application of Pigments: Pastels and Crayons, Water Colour, Tempera Painting, Fresco, Encaustic Painting, Oil-colour Painting, Keramic Art, Enamel, Stained and Painted Glass, Mosaic -- #Inorganic Pigments.# White Lead -- Zinc White -- Enamel White -- Whitening -- Red Lead -- Litharge -- Vermilion -- Royal Scarle t-- The Chromium Greens -- Chromates of Lead, Zinc, Silver and Mercury -- Brunswick Green -- The Ochres -- Indian Red -- Venetian Red -- Siennas and Umbers -- Light Red -- Cappagh Brown -- Red Oxides -- Mars Colours -- Terre Verte -- Prussian Brown -- Cobalt Colours -- Coeruleum -- Smalt -- Copper Pigments -- Malachite -- Bremen Green -- Scheele's Green -- Emerald Green -- Verdigris -- Brunswick Green -- Non-arsenical Greens -- Copper Blues -- Ultramarine -- Carbon Pigments -- Ivory Black -- Lamp Black -- Bistre -- Naples Yellow -- Arsenic Sulphides: Orpiment, Realgar -- Cadmium Yellow -- Vandyck Brown -- #Organic Pigments.# Prussian Blue -- Natural Lakes -- Cochineal -- Carmine -- Crimson -- Lac Dye -- Scarlet -- Madder -- Alizarin -- Campeachy -- Quercitron -- Rhamnus -- Brazil Wood -- Alkanet -- Santal Wood -- Archil -- Coal-tar Lakes -- Red Lakes -- Alizarin Compounds -- Orange and Yellow Lakes -- Green and Blue Lakes -- Indigo -- Dragon's Blood -- Gamboge -- Sepia -- Indian Yellow, Puree -- Bitumen, Asphaltum, Mummy -- #Index.# #THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT.# A Practical Handbook for Paint Manufacturers, Merchants and Painters. By J. CRUICKSHANK SMITH, B.Sc. Demy 8vo. 200 pp. Sixty Illustrations and One Large Diagram. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.) #Contents.# Preparation of Raw Material -- Storing of Raw Material -- Testing and Valuation of Raw Material -- Paint Plant and Machinery -- The Grinding of White Lead -- Grinding of White Zinc -- Grinding of other White Pigments -- Grinding of Oxide Paints -- Grinding of Staining Colours -- Grinding of Black Paints -- Grinding of Chemical Colours -- Yellows -- Grinding of Chemical Colours -- Blues -- Grinding Greens -- Grinding Reds -- Grinding Lakes -- Grinding Colours in Water -- Grinding Colours in Turpentine -- The Uses of Paint -- Testing and Matching Paints -- Economic Considerations -- Index. #DICTIONARY OF CHEMICALS AND RAW PRODUCTS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINTS, COLOURS, VARNISHES AND ALLIED PREPARATIONS.# By George H. HURST, F.C.S. Demy 8vo. 380 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 8s. home; 8s. 6d. abroad.)