. The tin-enamelled ware made by English potters in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in imitation of the Dutch is known as "English Delft," and many people collect the plates, bowls, vases and tiles decorated with views, rude portraits, or mottoes, as in the well-known "merry man" series. Such collectors will be interested in Major R. G. Mundy's English .Delft Pottery (Herbert Jenkins, 258.) for the sake of its numerous fine illustrations. But they will lament its incompleteness. The hest "-English Delft" was made at Lambeth long before Bristol or Liverpool potters attempted it, but Major Mundy has very little to say about Lambeth and devotes most of his space to -Bristol *are, which was usually very second-rate. Still the new details that he has collected about Bristol Delft are not Without, interest.
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