with a diamond, or broken steel file; the the engravings produced by copper and lead wheels at the lathe are far superior. With few exceptions, the design was a roughened surface intaglio, which, contrasted with its white transparent ground, had a lace-like delicacy of effect; especially if improved by traced polished lines, occasionally introduced, to give the relief of light and shade. The Venetians not only revived the curious ancient art of forming Mosaic Glass pictures, but introduced many other ingenious novelties. In the present day, Venice is unrivalled for its cheap and excellent Glass bugles and beads, of which enormous quantities are sold for the African and other foreign markets.

The Venetians and Bohemians had cylindrical drinking Glasses curiously painted in vitrified colours, with coats of arms, called vidre come. The ancient painted Glass vase, commemorated in the old ballad of the "Luck of Muncaster," was, probably, of early Bohemian manufacture.* It has also been the subject of a poetic romance.

In addition to their ordinary window and other Glasses, the Venetians were celebrated for the following ingenious Glasses, which, with the exception of the vitro di trino and frosted, were imitations of the ancient manufacture. (See PLATE 4, figs. 1, 2.)

The filigree, which consists of spirally-twisted white and coloured enamel Glasses, cased in transparent Glass, was much used by the Venetians for the stems of wine-glasses, goblets, &c.; and, when placed together, side by side, in alternate colours, it was manufactured into tazzas, vases, and other ornamental articles. Millefiore Glass consists of a great