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evening, by inviting outside artists, or those interested in 
keramics, to meet with them. We are informed that this is a 
most enthusiastic club. 
Mrs. G. W. Martin, President of the club at Augusta 
Maine, reports her club as full of enthusiasm and anxious to 
improve the character of their work. They hold their first 
meeting for the year in October. 
The Duquesne Club of Pittsburg had their first quarterly 
meeting of the year in September. Only business meetings 
are held, and this method is adopted to the general satisfac- 
tion of the club. An executive board of six members suffice 
to answer the call of the President and attend to any matter 
of business that may come up between the regular meetings. 
The Portland China Decorators' Club is already preparing 
for its annual exhibit which is to occur the second week in 
December. The club gives a private first view, after which 
the doors are open to the public. Through Mrs. C. M. Rice, 
the efficient President for many years, good teachers from 
Boston and New York are secured to come each year under 
the auspices of the club for a four or six weeks' course of 
lessons, thus giving to each member the same advantage. This 
plan insures the newest and best methods of work coming into 
the club, with the result that its open days have come to be 
one of the most interesting events of the season. 
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TN THE The teapot given in this number is very 
cxj/-\pc cheap ( Miss Wynne has it marked down to 25 
cents), and is a good shape and fairly good 
china. It will take the heavy tints (dusted on) with an ex- 
cellent glaze, and, altogether, it Avill be useful for a sale piece, 
for exhibition or for a gift. 
There are many good shapes in white china, and the fall 
catalogues are all out now. To those living a distance from 
the city, it will be an advantage to send to our advertisers for 
them. 
Lustre colors are seen on much of the new china im- 
ported. Green and blue seem the most popular colors. 
On Fifth Avenue, near Thirtieth, is an interesting shop. 
The wares being high class Japanese and Chinese, the artists 
like to go there, not only on account of the interesting ob- 
jects, but because they are always welcomed by extreme 
courtesy on the part of the people in charge. It was here 
that Gibson found an interesting rattan chair, and from his 
illustrations in Life this man has sold thousands of them. In 
our last number we gave an illustration of the Chinese " Dog 
Fo," which recalls the porcelain "Dog Fo" in front of this 
shop. It is three or four feet high and very fierce in appear- 
ance, with its great teeth savagely en evidence. This triumph 
of the potter's art is a constant source of amusement to the 
proprietor, who watches the children climb over it, sometimes 
stuffiing all sorts of things into its fierce mouth. No one 
passes it without a remark. Even the dogs acknowledge the 
art, by being immensely afraid of it. During the last elec- 
tion some one hung a card around its neck, "Our Teddy for 
Governor." 
The newer Doulton work seen on vases and punch" bowls 
is all shadowy and vague in effect, with clouded backgrounds. 
The colors are soft and the flowers are often just a suggestion, 
there is no violent contrast of colors, but only the most har- 
monious blending from one tone into another. Bedell has 
some charming specimens of it. and we wish that every dec- 
orator who has an opportunity could go there and study the 
color scheme. Some of the choicest pieces are really more 
like a monochrome, the gradations of tone being so slight. 
This is not realistic painting, but it possesses the highest 
principles of decorative art, and still it is not conventional. 
We saw there some of the new Delft, which is a striking 
departure from the old. It resembles the Rosenberg pottery, 
is extremely decorative in color and design. There were some 
very attractive clocks made of it. The Rosenberg pottery 
seems to be making an impression, for we also notice that a 
French pottery has taken up that style, and there were tank- 
ards (tall vases with spout and handle) four feet high with 
something of this treatment, although not what we would call 
artistic. 
We are very much interested in the "Lonhuda pottery" 
from Zanesville, Ohio, which is running very close to the 
Rookwood ; but, after all, it seems only an imitation, and is 
not so rich in color. There were many charming lamps made 
of the "Lonhuda" (Princess), with the mountings and bowl in 
dull brass. 
There were some charming bowls in the Nancy glass, 
with flowers and leaves in colored relief. 
JN THE Mrs. H. P. Calhoun is now in New Brun- 
STITDTOS sw i c k an d writes that she has made some fine 
studies of fruit and flowers for her winter's 
work. She will open classes in October. 
Miss E. E. Page of Boston has removed from No. 2 Park 
Square, where she had her studio for seven years, to 384a 
Boylston Street, and will give an October reception. 
Miss Fairbanks of Boston, one of the members of the 
Advisory Board of the League, will attend the all-day session 
of that body in New York, on September 15th, at the studio 
of Mrs. Anna B. Leonard. 
Mrs. Frazee and also Miss Dibble of Chicago, will hold 
studio receptions in September. 
Miss M. M. Mason has returned to New York and is 
having her regular clases once more. Miss Mason was for- 
tunate in making excellent sketches from nature this summer. 
Mr. Griinnewald, formerly of Griinnewald & Busher, was 
in the city the first of September, calling at the differen: 
studios and meeting his many friends among the decorators. 
It is to Mr. Griinnewald that the West and South for many 
years have owed its interest in keramics. His untiring energy 
in the annual exhibitions, and his careful and generous advice 
to all who were having failures in the firing, etc., as well as his 
good importations, have given the great impetus to china 
decoration, the results of which we see to-dav. 
Miss Leta Horlocker is at home once more and has opened 
classes at 28 East 23d Street. 
Mr. Hasburg of Chicago called upon us and expressed 
the pleasure that the KERAMIC Studio is giving to its sub- 
scribers and advertisers. He gave us some suggestions 
for paste work to be done with a pen, which we will give our 
readers, after experimenting. (We have our grappling hooks 
out for all that will aid the work.) 
Miss Henrietta Barclay Wright will spend the month of 
September at her home in Minneapolis. October will find 
her in Duluth, Minn., and she is planning a trip to the Black 
Hills for November and December. 
