This new Harry Davis booklet is a storehouse of invaluable information on the use of raw materials, not only geological origins and chemical analysis, but a very practical section on how to collect, prepare and test samples from your own locality.

In addition to this there is a complete summary of work done at the workshop in collecting and testing a wide variety of materials, with colour pictures of some of the resulting glaze tests; and also a section on the construction of pug mills, complete with detailed diagrams.

Ruth Meechan

Book Review - KERAMOS, THE TEACHING OF POTTERY Franz F. Kriwanek, Kendal/Hunt Pub.Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 1971

This is one of the latest publications about Ceramics. It comes in paper back priced around $4.50. Mr. Kriwanek states in his preface, "The purpose of Keramos is to provide the teacher of pottery with a text which presents the necessary technical Know-how of pottery making within a long overdue humanistic context". The quick overview which I have given the book seems to support his purpose. He includes all the basic chapters: clay, glaze composition, kiln building, techniques, etc. However, each chapter has been dealt with from a different approach. The chapter on clay, for example, contains several pictures of clay deposits. This is old hat to the experienced, but to the beginner, or person living ina city, what does a clay deposit look like ? He includes a map with clay deposits in the U.S. marked. Each of his chapters seems to have something different to offer. The book is laced with a general sampling of photographs and diagrams. It has pug mill plans, kiln plans, etc. It appears at this reading to be one of the better basic books for the novice, both from cost and content.

Jean Marie Weakland

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