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RERAMIC STUDIO 
THE ART PRIMERS OF THE PENN MUSEUM 
Mr. Edwin A. Barber, curator of the Pennsylvania 
Museum has begun the publication of a series of Art 
Primers designed to furnish in a compact form for the use 
of collectors, historical and art students, and artisans, the 
most reliable information relating to the various indus- 
trial arts. The first monograph is one of the series of 
ceramic books, which, when completed, will cover the 
entire subject, and is on Salt Glazed Stoneware. Mr. 
Barber divides the subject into three groups: Stoneware 
of Germany and the Bow Countries; Salt Glazed Wares 
of England; Stoneware of the United States; and every 
group is profusely illustrated with the most character- 
istic specimens in the Museum, and some from private 
collections. 
In review of stoneware in the United States much 
praise is given to Mrs. Frackelton who has been the first 
to revive the making of artistic salt glazed stoneware in 
our times. There are great artistic possibilities in the 
making of this ware. Another woman, Miss Hannah B. 
Barlow, at the Doulton Works in Lambeth, England, has 
in recent years attained a worldwide celebrity by her 
clever rendering of animals and rustic life in a few lines 
scratched on the wet surface of the ware before firing and 
salt glazing. 
The price of the Pennsylvania Museum booklet is 
50 cents and it is for sale at the Museum. This price 
will hardly pay expenses, but as Mr. Barber writes to us, 
this publication is a labor of love entirely. It will be a 
valuable addition to the library of both artisans and collect- 
ors. 
STUDIO NOTE 
Mrs. Vance Phillips reports a very successful season 
at Chautauqua with a high class of work under the tuition 
of Mrs. Sara Wood Safford, Mrs. Blanche Van Court 
Schneider, Miss Lilian Sherman and Mrs. Phillips herself. 
HOP DESIGN FOR STEIN IN OLIVE GREENS— OPHELIA FOLEY 
