Byzantium, and Italy have produced no variety of glass which 

 is not represented in this collection. The avanturine of 

 every colour ; combinations of coloured strata — flashed, 

 threaded, and mosaiced, coloured with every variety of 

 metallic oxide — these supply illustrations of the art of glass- 

 making, many of which are exceedingly rare, and are very 

 seldom seen. The handicraft of the glass cutter and 

 engraver are equally well illustrated. The potter's trade, 

 through all its manifold simple operations or formative pro- 

 cesses, is amply illustrated; while the decoration, whether 

 by coloured clay, in the body, or as cameos of an opaque 

 white or other colour — the decoration by enamel painting — is 

 well illustrated. Every department of the pottery art, as 

 applied to pipes, is illustrated by examples which may be 

 found in this Exhibition. Viewed as pipes, &c, &c, merely, 

 the collection has an interest seen in its relation to ornament. 

 These objects, and this collection, rise in value when viewed 

 as suggestive of lessons in ornamentation. If so, it has 

 served a most useful purpose. While it has amused, let us 

 hope it has instructed; and while the votary to the weed, &c, 

 has examined the appliances for its use, those engaged in the 

 manufactures of the town may have culled hints and acquired 

 lessons in decorative enrichment which, it is hoped, they 

 will apply hereafter in their daily occupations, with benefit 

 to themselves and to the objects on which their increased 

 knowledge, gathered from this collection — unique, rich, and 

 rare — is applied. 



The Bragge Museum— as Mr. Bragge's generous loan well 

 deserves to be called— includes more than five thousand 

 specimens of art and industry from every quarter of the 

 world, and of nearly every date. All relate directly to the 

 use of tobacco, or some similar narcotic, and tend to show 

 that "the habit" is practically universal, and that the 

 immortal memory of Sir Walter Raleigh is likely to be 

 honoured when King James and his " Counter-blaste " are 

 utterly forgotten and unknown. 



HUDSON AND SON, PRINTERS, 18, BULL STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 



