KERAMIC STUDIO 
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ARTS AND CRAFTS 
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Adelaide Alsop-Robineau, potter (high fire porcelains). Over- 
glaze decoration is illustrated by the work of Mrs. Dorothea 
Warren O'Hara and the Ceramic Society of Greater New York, 
under the able leadership of Marshal Fry, Jr. It is a work 
well worth including in any library of contemporary crafts- 
work. 
"The Practical Book of Early American Arts and Crafts" 
is another book that should be owned by all interested in crafts- 
work. It^covers practically all the ground from the time of the 
early settlers to the beginning of the nineteenth century. It 
is particularly strong on metal work and needle work, but 
ceramics are interestingly illustrated by the Pennsylvania 
Dutch Tulip ware, early American glass, and an expecially in- 
teresting chapter on early Mexican pottery under Spanish and 
Chinese influence, all well illustrated, and well worth study by 
our decorators and designers looking for characteristic motifs, 
other than Indian. We think that interest would have been 
added to the book by an intelligently selected chapter on abor- 
iginal pottery. But the book is already quite bulky, confined 
to the work of white settlers. ._ We heartily recommend the 
book for reference purposes. 
PLATE, BIRD MOTIF— MAUD M, MASON 
