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For further illustration we may take a single article; for example, Pottery and Porcelain (14½ pages), vol. xiii., pp. 777-792. In this are explained, among others, the following objects, on which the information there given would naturally be sought under the names they bear: Sèvres china, 785, 2, a, and 791, 1, c-2, a; Sèvres vase (illustration), 785, 2; old Sèvres china, 786, 2, b; composition of, 792, 1, a.—Stanniferous, 778, 1, c.—Bat printing, 786, 1, b.—Crackle, 784, 1, a; Crackle vase (illustration), ibid.—Raffaelle (ware), 781, 2, b.—Frit, 790, 2, b and c.—Pug mill, 787, 1, b, c; illustration, ibid.—Samian (ware), 780, 2, b; illustration, 1, c.—Henri Deux (ware), 782, 1, a; Henri Deux Faïnce vase (illustration) ibid. Seggar, 789, 2, c-790, 2, a; illustration, ibid.—Mezza majolica (ware), 781, 1, c; Majolica vase (illustration) ibid.—Potter's wheel (Egyptian use of), 778, 2, c.—Potter's lathe, 787, 2, b; illustration, ibid.—Porzellana, 781, 2, a. Delft (ware), 782, 2, a-c.—Blunger, 788, 2, b.—Muffle (illustration), 792 1, c.—Slip, 788, 2, c, 791, 1, a.—Queen's ware, 783, 1, a.—Jasper ware, 783, 1, b.—Petuntse, 783, 2, c.—Parian biscuit, 783, 2, a, 786, 2, c.—Wedgwood, 783, 1, a; Wedgwood ware, b, c.

Subjects on which interesting and valuable information is given are far more numerous than the titles of the leading articles. But, if entered as such in the alphabetical arrangement of the work, they would generally be taken out of the connection in which they are best understood and appreciated, and would swell the number of leading articles beyond reasonable limits. The reader, consulting these only, may often be disappointed, failing to obtain the information which he seeks, and cannot find without an index.