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cheap and enduring statues, vases, fountains, etc., modelled to correct and artistic forms.
It is also available for architecture, being the natural sequence of brick making—the attempt of artistic power to progress from machine-pressed, square, clay bricks to hand- modelled clay, fine art objects for the million. Once modelled, these can be reproduced by pressing in moulds, ad infinitum —alike, yet unlike, as the artist can touch up each pressed form while the clay is yet pliable, ere it is put into the kilns. Then, too, it is made in different colors. The Italian Terra- Cotta is famous for its deep rich red color. The German and Austrian manufacturers endeavor to make theirs resemble stone, so that it may be used for ornamental work in combination with that material, thus effecting a considerable saving in outlay, and securing effective ornamentation for the façades of their buildings. In England all colors are used, although the principal architects, who favor it as a building material, desire that the English work should show the natural marks of the firing, so stamping it as no imitation of another material, but as a legitimate and old-time medium for forming buildings and articles of utility and art.
Several buildings lately erected in London are particularly striking. The combination of terra-cotta with pressed brickwork is charming in the highest degree. It is safe to request —iu these latter days when almost every one travels—that if any of the readers of this Report, in the future, find themselves in London, they should seek the merchants’ offices, built directly opposite the Ludgate Hill Railroad depot ; and if the London soot and smoke have not blackened the building, there is no fear but that this suggestion will be pardoned on account of the pleasure. experienced. While in this locality, round by the home of the " Thunderer,” near Printing-house Square, is a neat store, the elaborate front and interior of which will bear inspection and pay for the time bestowed upon them. The inside walls are lined with Minton’s encaustic tiles, evidently designed and made for this building. The pictures on the tiles are beautiful paintings of pastoral scenes. This tile work is another artistic production which should be carried on in this country, but which is entirely neglected, on the reasoning that we can buy all