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ART ED U CAT ION. 
photographs of which tliis series consists are taken from the elas- 
ßieal plastic works of the Louvre, the rest being from drawings by 
the old masters; and tliey are treated in a manner which makes it 
easy to copy tliem in crayon or other material. An exeellent 
management of light, together with well-chosen backgrouuds, give 
the greatest lucidity to the form, espeeially of the plastic objects. 
The work embraces two hundred plates, but is unfortunately too 
luxuriously gotten up to enable it to come into general use. 
Price, eight francs each plate. 
In accordance with a desire of the government, it is to be 
introduced into all the Drawing-Schools, Lycea, &c., of France, 
for the purpose of purifying taste by means of the antique,' 
and of giving unity to ideas on art. For the present, however, 
only a few of the Parisian schools possess it. In the provincial 
cities, where the older elements are as yet more deeply rooted, 
these modern efforts are sometimes forced to eontend against 
gross prejudices. 
The “ Coiirs de Dessin par Ch. Bargue (avec le Concours de 
Gerome) ” outdoes all earlier productions, although it is more 
general in its tendencies. The first part contains sculpture from 
antifjue models in exceedingly delicate, picturesque treatment; 
the second part brings us faithful copies from classical works of 
various kinds, drawings by the old masters, &c., of all epoclis, 
among which the “ good ” German masters have not been forgot- 
ten. The execution is slight, but exact, and in only one crayon. 
These Superior examples (published since 1868) have already 
found tlieir way into many of the Austrian schools; and their 
general introduction is most desirable. 
1 he ‘ ■ Exercises au Fusain pour preparer a l’fitude de l’Academie 
d’apres la Nature” (Hachette, 1871) can be put to exeellent use 
in higher drawing-schools, as a preparation for academical studies. 
1 he work consists of Sketches only, and special attention is de- 
voted to quick comprehension and correct proportioning of the 
figures. Among the publications of Monrocq Freres, the “Grand 
Cours d’Animaux,” by II. Lalaise, is to be singled out; the exe 
cution is somewhat hold, but the forms are rendered with consid- 
erableknowledge. The “ Modeles d’apräs la Nature,” by J. Ducol- 
let et I elon, on the contrary, go back again entirely to Julien’s 
manner.