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mermann  (teacher  in  Zwickau),  caused  a  Sensation  whicli  was
well  justified;  and  the  wisli  was  tlien  repeatedly  uttered,  that  tke
author  might  make  his  plates  serviceable  to  other  schools,  by
reproducing  them.  At  the  World’s  Fair  they  were  likewise  to  be
seen,  and  received  the  most  favorable  commendation  on  all  sides.
When  speaking  of  Saxony,  we  shall  recur  to  this  work  more  in
detail.  The  People’s  School  at  Mayence,  which  is  so  excellently
managed,  and  the  work  of  whose  pupils  received  such  high  praise
at  the  time  of  the  Exhibition  in  1870,  unfortunately  did  not  send
any  thing  to  Yienna.
In  the  provinces  of  Prussia  drawing  is  well  managed  wherever
the  teacher  happens  to  be  versed  in  the  subjectJ  This  Observation
very  naturally  leads  us  on  to  the  consideration  of  instruction  in
drawing  in  Teachers’  Seminaries,  whence  its  cultivation  in  the
People’s  Schools  must  necessarily  proceed.  Down  to  the  present
this  instruction  was  very  incomplete;  and,  according  to  the  report
already  quoted,  it  was  frequently  in  danger  of  dying  out  altogether,
owing  to  the  isolated  Situation  of  some  of  the  seminaries.  But
little  time  being  deyoted  to  drawing,  and  the  drawing-teacher  being
therefore  left  without  adequate  employment,  the  subject  was  generally
  intrusted  to  one  of  the  teachers  of  Science.  Suitable  teachers
were  to  be  had  only  in  the  larger  cities,  which  is  the  reason  why
good  results  were  generally  obtained  in  those  places.  If  the  later
regulations  in  regard  to  drawing  in  the  People’s  Schools  are  to  be
carried  out,  the  government  will  have  to  see  to  it  that  due  attention
is  paid  to  the  subject  in  the  seminaries.
In  regard  to  instruction  in  industrial  drawing,  the  North  of  Germany
  is  also  still  far  behind  the  Southern  countries.  Not  verj'  long
ago,  every  thing  that  was  done  to  advance  art-industry  emanated
from  private  societies  only,  and  the  Prussian  government  was  the
most  tardy  of  all  the  German  governments  in  devoting  due  attention ­
  to  this  most  important  factor  of  wealth.  Up  to  about  ten
years  ago,  tliere  were  no  institutions  in  Prussia  capable  of  extending
  adequate  Support  to  the  art-industries,  the  only  exceptlon
being  the  “Society  of  Mechanics  ”  of  Berlin,  which  was  especially
  instrumental  in  advancing  the  joinery  and  the  weaving  of
Northern  Germany  to  a  certain  degree.  The  Municipal  Industrial
Schools  provided  for  a  more  general  scientific  education,  rather