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tution is so well known everywhere by its excellent prodnctions, 
that a detailed description appears to be quite superfluous liere. 
Frederic Losser also exhibited models for instruction in descrip- 
tive geometry, tlie solids being of wood, and plaeed upon planes, 
upon which tbeir projections were drawn, together witli the con- 
stmction-lines. Very instructive apparatus for perspective, by tlie 
same autbor, must likewise be montioned. 
Large wall-eharts for elementar instruction in drawing were 
exhibited by J. Kumpa (publislied by W. Peyerle, Darmstadt), 
wliich progress systematically from simple geometrical elemcnts to 
Ornament. The forms are broad, delineated in a dark tint upon 
white, and the work can be highly recommended for the first stages 
of instruction. 
Besides the Industrial Schools, the Real-School of Darmstadt 
was also represented by specimens from the hands of its pupils; 
and, indeed, very successfully. The lead-pencil, however, would 
be preferable to the crayon for the first stages. But the verdict 
upon the manner in which drawing is continued in this school 
must be less favorable, as there is no fixed principle. This is true, 
even in a still higher degree, of the Gymnasium in Darmstadt, by 
which drawings had also been sent. 
Hamburg.—There is hardly another city in Germany at pres-- 
ent, in which drawing is taught as carefully and as conscientiously 
as in Hamburg. By the United action of the intelligent and eapa- 
ble teachers employed in the General Industrial School of the 
city, a definite method of teaching has developed itself in this 
institution (now also introduced into the People’s Schools), which. 
deserves to be called exemplary in its well-ordered, gradual prog 
ress. The favorable impression made upon the visitor by the 
exhibition, was not, however, to be alone attributed to the excel 
lent results which were shown, but also to the painstaking arrange- 
ment, the conscientious adjustment of the whole, b\' means of 
which the aim of the exhibition — to give an insight into methods 
and results — was completely attained. There were on exhibition 
specimens of the achievements of the Elementary Schools, the 
General Industrial and the Building Trades School, and of the 
Industrial School for Girls ; the systematic conrse of instruction.