13 AUGUST 1898, Page 25

The Story of the Potter. By Charles F. Sinus. (G.

Newnes.) —Mr. Binns tells the "story of the Potter" in something less than two hundred and fifty pages, with which he contrives to cover nearly fifty centuries. He begins with Egypt, takes us to Greece and Rome, to prehistoric America, to China and Japan, and, not to give a tedious enumeration of persons and places, in the end to Etruria (in Staffordshire, not in Italy), and the great name of Josiah Wedgwood. A final chapter gives an account of the processes and materials actually in use at the present day.