29 SEPTEMBER 1888, Page 26

Marble Decoration. By G. H. Blagrove. (Crosby Lockwood.)— After discussing

the nature and properties of marble, cements, and mastics, and giving the elementary principles of mosaic work and marble mouldings and carved ornament, the writer devotes the last half of his book to a careful and comprehensive "Terminology of British and Foreign Marbles," a most useful appendix, which constitutes the most valuable portion of the book. Marble, by- the-way, is, " correctly speaking," a combination of lime, carbonic acid, and water, not carbonate of lime, carbonic acid, and water.