Just off Regent Street, in the crowded West End of London, whose roar is sounding in my ears as I write these words, is a quiet corner known as Langham Chambers, where in the pleasant rooms one may see the latest novelties in what they call the"minor arts."These"minor arts"take in every form of home decoration, and include wood-carving, modelling, and various possibilities already described in these pages. But one of them was so surprising, and the effect so far beyond what could be dreamed of from the materials used, that I made haste to get every detail, and present them now, as not only the clue to interesting and even fascinating work, but also as the solution of at least part of one of our household problems-what to do with the broken china and broken pottery in general.

The process is said to have been invented by a popular dentist of aesthetic tastes, who was in despair over the breakage of some of his favorite bits of china and pottery. He determined not to lose them entirely, and the result of his experiments was a set of tiles, and the birth of what is nearly a new art, and might well stand as the title of the present chapter.