27 JUNE 1908, Page 7

Transfer Printing on Enamels, Porcelain, and Pottery. By W. Turner.

(Chapman and Hall. 25s. net.)—Those who are curious as to the origin and development of this process will find the matter discussed in this volume in detail. Transfer printing is said to have been invented in England, and we may well believe it, for it has in it that fatal English habit of artistic inappro- priateness. To transfer a line engraving to the bottom of a soup- plate may seem to some the height of ingenuity, but there is no doubt that the invention of the means to do such work led people away from the true style of china painting, which is to decorate the piece of china, and not to make it the vehicle for a picture.