This volume is the last of a trilogy designed to cover the whole range of Chinese ceramic history from the earliest times to the present day, The first part, by Mr. A. L. Hetherington, dealt with pre-'Ming wares; it was published in 1922, and has lately achieved the [popular success of re-issue in cheap form.
Mr. Hobson took up in his "Wares of the published two now completes survey of the various kinds to porcelain and pottery manufactured under the Ching or Manchu dynasty, whose rule over China extended from 1644 until the establishment of a Republic in 1912, These later porcelains have never lacked appreciation in the West, from the days when Augustus the Strong built up the historic collection at Dresden until the present time, when American millionaries are glad to bid into five figures sterling for a single coveted vase. Luckily for the English public of to-day, the combined taste and national' spirit of two last-century collectors, George Salting and Sir Augustus Wollas ed in the aequis great London museums of a large: body of material of the finest quality, whose value to students will, it is hoped, be immensely enhanced at no distant date by the publication of detailed and illustrated: cata-logness. In the meantime such a book as this of Mr. Hobton's furni iches an admirable courtiers to vote." At one time he was "Scout Master-General" of Cromwell's Army in Scotland, He was, at any rate, a man of character. a voluminous quantity of illustrations of objects which are almost entirely private possession in Beresford Chancellor's cot (oe eh Bae lip Allan, make interesting published by and amusing ' reading. Three volumes—"Old Rowley,". "The "Colonel the Duke of Wharton"—have already appeared, and soon we are to have one on the "Hell-Fire Club." "Later are to be others on "Old Earl of Barrymore, and the "Regency Rakes," among whom are George IV, Hertford, Hanger, but. not, alas, Lord George Hell, the waxen-masked hero of Max's "The Happy Hypocrite." Tt is a pity that the series should end with the Regency Rakes. Did Takishness_ end. with George IV, oF Mr. Chancellor merely being: considerate of the latter-day rakes" feelings? "Stil, few of our modern yakes could hold a candle to. the Dold and rascally Colonel Charteris, he sary, shag cre handbook on Gh A El tainable at any but fancy price. The present, moment is therefore opportune for the issue of this handsomely illustrated record, the {text of which is rendered up to date [by the inclusion of such, modifica. tions and additions to our knowledge as have accrued since the publication of Mr. Hobson's classic "Chin ese Pottery and Porcelain." It! jmust be admitted thay such occa. sions are infrequent—although, when they occur interesting, as in the passages associated with the names of Kashan, Ku Yueh Hatian, and Ysbranti Tdes—and that. th Mustrations will prove the mest
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