In his article "Why Not, a Nation-at Park in the Highlands" the Earl of Onslow laments the scarcity of wild cats among other animals: id cats only exist now in the noi "and west of SeoUiand, and un-Fortunately they eross. with the. com mon tame cats but they" are beautiful End Nandsome beasts, Very cree. and. Tete said, untar fe lhaa Non But unfortunately Brey The lack of salads in English hotels noted deals in this twelfth instalment with Out Skerries, one of a group of three islets nearer to Norway than to England: ints of Value The book divided into two parts, Part cover Chiéngehua and Hungechih periods, Port It dealing with the District and Kilns of Fouling, "and Ceramic Part T the author makes to Chinese, works: criling with the subject, besides explaining the marks to be found on the bottoms of the porcelain pieces which servo to identity them as be Jonging. to this or that period, giving details concerning their quality, Workmanship, designs and colours. These should prove of great, value to collectors in helping them to deter imine the dates of manufacture and the genuineness-or otherwise of pieces that may come into their hands, at the same time. lending interest to heir collections by supplying the: history of the pieces they contain.
Part If supplies a mass of informa ion on the kilns as they exist today.
id on the processes involved in the manufeelure of the still ne quality Of porcelain turned out.
Altogether this is a most, useful ook, and one that every student of Chinese art and. art-crafts "should possess, 'The North-China Daily News and Herald, Lids who printed the 'Dook, deserve the highest praise for the quality of their work; while the ubtshers' and the author_are 12 be Complimented. on issuing a work of this nature. Porcelain enthusiasts the world over will be grateful to them.
J. Denham, writes "Willows in' the Sun" and. gives uusoful hints on the planting and care of the various types—moreover the familiar names, Japan, China, Manchoukuo and the Yangtze can be caught ona first glance through the pages, "The fourteenth instal ment of the Diary of a Fruit Farmer contains short comments on a visit to Germany to attend the Horticultural Conference, such a8:
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