The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19

| A series of books valuable to the | collector, the home-maker and the | connoiseur has just been Issued. The books are Chats on English China, ''The Old China Book" Chats on Old ] Furniture," .The Oriental Rug Book" i" "Chats on Old China" by Arthur Hay | den is written to enable the possess sors of old china to determine the fac 1 tories In which their ware was pro- | duced, and to give the reader detailed 1 facts as to values, periods, qualities and relative importance of the dfner- ent makes. '"rhe old China Book" by N Hudson Moore describes Wedgwood. Lucter and English pottery and porce- lain. Chats on Old Furniture" also | by Arthur Hayden. is practical guide for the amateur furniture buyer. teach | ing him the essential points of the va rious styles made in England and how | to tell the good from the meretricious. The oriental Rug Book" by Marie Churchill Ripley, is descriptive of the various makes, their motifs or orna-
 mentation, legends, their influence, and is a complete history of the art. The Old Furniture Book" by N. Hudson Moore. describes the furniture used by the first colonists in America and the l work done by their cabinet-makers as more or less uniform in style. They are all very fully illustrated. The "Oriental Rug Book" has a number of full page reproductions in such excel- lent colors that they seem almost like miniature rugs themselves. thus giv- ing the reader an exact idea of their coloring as we'll as their design. The two books on old china are unusually complete and interesting, giving pic- 1 lures of almost every kind of porce- lain and-pottery made, not only de- scribing the detail, but the peculiari-
 ties of each ware, giving their relative
 prices, their history and artistic value,
 and a description of where and how
 they were made.
 MT Hayden's furniture book de-
 scribes famous French styles as well
 as old English makes. An interesting
 feature os the book is catalogue of
 sales and names of pieces bought re-
 gently by famous people.
 These books make a general survey
 of the entire subject of furniture, pot
 teries and porcelain. These books will
 enable owners to learn much of value
 of their own heirlooms of furniture
 and china which they value for asso-
 citation, butt which they have never
 been able to classify study of this
 series will enable them to recognize
 the style and approximate date of their
 treasures, and. will give to their pos-
 sessors an incteased value and new in-
 terest
 There Is always an exquisite pleas
 ure to the beholder in watching the
 turn of the petter's wheel. SOld Bibli-
 cal parables of the Potter and the Clay
 come to mind as we gaze on the whirl
 of the wheel. The humming resonance
 sets itself to the music of Omor's lines.
 The first Potters wheel ever saw was
 at little fair in a small Alabama
 town, the potter was turning out vases
 11 yn1a fG ha
 which he worked our native soil. The
 next time I stood beside a potter's
 wheel was in the factory at Sevres.
 The old Frenchman, in his white
 blouse, was humming. and smiling.
 and lowing as his skilled hands
 wrought with the snow-white clay.
 Now a compact. smash of hIs hand,