HOOFING TILES.

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for large pieces of work, such as the frieze at the Albert Hall. This firm has rooms with broad platforms, specially fitted up for this kind of art work, and, when desired, appro­priate designs are furnished for any position or size of the in­tended mosaic.

This is an important branch of art, which is destined to occupy a much larger share of attention than has been hitherto given. The mosaics are especially adapted to rere- dos friezes, chancel pavements, entrance halls, doorways, porches, and in panels for mural decoration. A number of pictures and figures, worked at the rooms of Messrs. M., H. & Co., are exhibited in the South Kensington Museum. In the frieze of the Royal Albert Hall there are over five thou­sand square feet covered with mosaic, and the average size of the tesserae does not exceed half an inch square. In the London International Exhibition of 1871 there was an inter­esting variety of specimens of mosaic work by Maw & Co., "W". 13. Simpson & Co., and Minton, Hollins & Co. The ob­jects embraced such designs as the Lord’s Supper, head of Isaiah, emblems of the evangelists, etc.

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Roofing Tiles.

This firm also manufacture a very ornamental roofing tile, of three shapes, as shown by the figures, and of a variety of colors, — either those of the plain, un­glazed body, such as black, chocolate, or red, or enamelled with opaque glaze, in blue, green, orange, or white. Such tiles are suitable for ornamental cottages where the roof is a conspicuous feature, for school-houses, boat-houses, turrets, conservatories, etc. They are very strong and indestructible, and make a good roof. The plain are sold as low as two­pence each; the glazed at threepence, and the enamelled at fourpence each, all at the works. The large roof of St. Stephen’s Church in Vienna is one of the finest examples of the use of colored tiles for roofing.

Some green bottle-glass tiles were seen in the Hungarian section, about 16 inches long, 5 inches wide, and fth inch thick. Each tile has a projection on the under side, which serves to hold it upon the roof.