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ART  EDUCATION.

to  show,  and,  in  continuation  of  what  bas  so  far  been  said,  we
must  now  speak  of  tbe  Royal  Wurtejnberg  Art-Industrial  School.
The  specimens  of  this  school  were  exhibited  in  the  middle  of  the
pavilion,  in  a  pretty  decorative  an-angement,  so  tliat  the  various
drawings  formed,  as  it  were,  an  architectural  wliole.  The  Commission ­
  had  taken  care  to  exhibit  all  the  branches  of  drawing  and
modelling  which  are  practiced  in  the  institution.  In  style  the
Renaissance  predominated,  but  there  were  also  very  beautiful
studies  from  classical  monuments,  Pompeian  mural  decorations,  &c.
High  praise  must  be  awarded  to  the  outline  Ornaments,  to  which
nanie,  leaving  it  undecided  which  place  is  alluded  to  in  the  report.  But  the

towns  or  villages  so  marked  are  quite  insignificant.
Asch  9,105  Laudskron  5,016
Aussig  .  .  ,  ...  .  10,933  Mondsee  1,240
Bielitz  10,721  Petrowitz  ?
Brünn  73,771  Reichenberg  .  .  .  .  (  .  .  22,394
Carlstein  (Karlstein?)  ....  666  Rietz  ?
Gablonz  6,752  Rochlitz  (unter-Rochlitz?)  .  .  .  8,097
Graz  81,119  Rothmülll  3,267
Gmünd  1,900  Rumburg  9,090
Graslitz  6,549  St.  Ulrich  1,096
Hallein  3,614  Schönbach  2,640
Hallstadt  1,671  Steinschönau  3,100
Haida  2,009  Tachau  4,111
Hochstadt  1,492  Vienna  (in  1864)  ....  607,514
Hohenelbe  5,316  Walkern.......
Imst  2,236  Znaim  10,600
Innsbruck  16,324  Zwittau  5,781

For  furtlier  Information  on  teehnical  and  industrial  edncation  in  ’Wurtemburg,
  the  reader  is  refered  to  Mr.  John  Scott  RusselTs  interesting  work  on
“  The  Systematic  Technical  Edncation  of  the  English  People,”  London,  18ß9.
It  will  he  seen  from  the  ahove  lists  tliat  all  tliese  schools  are  located  simply
with  a  view  to  the  interests  of  the  industries  carried  on  in  the  various  places.
The  idea  of  limitiug  the  schools  according  to  the  popnlation  is  not  entertained,
nor  is  this  idea  justified;  for  a  town  containing  one  thousand  inhahitants
carrying  on  a  special  trade,  certainly  has  more  neeil  of  such  schools,  than  a  city
of  teil  thousand  inhahitants  carrying  on  no  special  trade.  There  are  a  nuniher
of  American  industries  which  might  he  iniproved  by  the  iiistrumentality  of
tliese  schools.  Take,  for  instance,  the  Yankee  clocks.  The  elocks  of  the  Black
Forest  are  no  better,  as  clocks,  yet  they  cominand  the  markets  of  the  world;
wliile  the  Yankee  clock,  possessing  no  artistic  features,  generally  speaking,  is
restricted  to  certain  markets.  But  tlien,  in  the  Black  Forest,  art-education  Is
a  matter  of  course,  wliile  in  America  it"  is  generally  regarded  as  of  little  value.
The  sewing-iriachine  is  also  awaiting  its  artistic  development,  not  so  inucli  in
the  case  which  encloses  it,  but  ratlier  as  far  as  the  machine  itself  is  concerned.
The  ne  plus  xdtru  of  artistic  finisli,  so  far,  appears  to  be  black  lacquer,  and  big
blotohes  of  mother-of-pearl.  In  the  liands  of  artists,  it  must  certainly  be
capable  of  something  better.  —  Transl.