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Of the Royal Prnssian Provincial Industrial Schools, only the 
Institution at Saarbrücken had sent specimens ; and tliis example 
sufflced to shovv, tliat in the schools of thisclass drawing, as aiule, 
is undoubtedly taught by more efficient teachers tlian in tlie com- 
niunal institutions. The verdict on these schools, as ghen at the 
Berlin Exhibition of 1870, in which they were represented, was 
almost identical. The progress from simple geometrical ground- 
forms to fully developed Ornament, according to the wall-charts by 
Fürstenberg, teacher in the school at Saarbrücken, was nicely illus- 
trated by the drawings submitted ; and the method as well as the 
results are deserving of undivided praise. The drawings from casts, 
Ornaments, and figures were of the most delicate execution, and, 
to the taste of the reporter, were finished almost too minutely “ ä 
la lithographie ” for this purpose. 
The drawings from casts by the pupils of the drawing school of 
the Museum Wallraf-Richartz in Cologne, under the manage 
ment of its director, Messen, were equally attractive. The delicate 
modulation of the form rivalled the precision of the outlines. 
Specimens of the aehievements of the Mechanics’ Improvement 
School of »the Industrial Society of Nassau were also exhibited, 
which deserved full praise, especially in linear drawing, for tlieir 
exact and clear execution, as well as for the practical course of 
instruction. Newer and fresher motives would, howcvcr, be desira- 
ble in decorative drawing, as well as in arclutecture. Plenty of 
good tliings are now to be had! The course of instruction in 
ornamental drawing is correct. 
The Prnssian Educationjl Administration also exhibited the 
plans of the buildings of the Industrial Schools at Brieg, Gleich 
witz, Cassel, 1 Mühlheim, of the Teachers’ Seminary near Mett 
mann, and of the Rhenish-Westphalian Polytechnicum at Aachen, 
the latter in the style of the early Italian Renaissance, and of 
imposing effect. . 
As reo-ards linear drawing in the scientific and educational insti 
tutions, °it remains to be remarked, tliat its real use is unfortu- 
nately very generally overlooked, and tliat the positive results do 
1 Tliis institution also exliibited very fine models of the framework o 
roofs, and a tliread-model of a liyperboloid of tliree axes (constiuoted y 
Director Wiecke, executed by Ackermann).