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eeutive ability of the children for wkom it is designed (this may 
be remarked more especially of the “fitudes du Genre”), but 
its purpose is to train the eye, rather than the hand, in the matter 
of form, and principally to acquaint this organ with the most 
important and the most beautiful in art and in nature. Besides 
this, the firm of Monrocq Freres, which is exceedingly active in 
the field of instruction in form and in drawing, publishes a Jour 
nal, “Le Petit Artiste ” (Ist and 15th of eachmonth), in which 
motives from all departmentsof drawing, with a short text, are pre- 
sented in the greatest variety. Whoever turns over the leaves of 
the volumes thus far published will be forced to acknowledge, that 
the choice, as well as the execution of the objects, which is some- 
times quite artistic, are well fitted to create an interest, and to be 
practically useful in teaching the knowledge of form. Luzanne’s 
slate-copies are likewise a very recommendable means to interest 
children in the imitation of forms. The drawings are executed in 
red Ihres on the left half of the slate, and are reflected, by means of 
a glass plate placed vertically, upon the other blank half, wliere the 
outlines are gone over by the hand of the pupil. The “ Cahiers 
d’Enseignement Pratique du Dessin,” by J. Carot, the “Cahiers 
Esquisses de Dessin d’Ornement,’ by A. le Bealle, as well as the 
works of J. Bardin, L. Grunblot, Blery, &c., aie alieadj derotcd 
to higher aims in drawing-instruction proper; and it needs only to 
remark in general, that the plastic Ornament prevails everywhere. 
The natural flower gradually steps into the background. Land 
scape likewise is very properly excluded from elementary instruc 
tion ; and, indeed, since Calame’s incomparable lithographs, noth 
ing prominent in this genre has appeared. Strange to say, very 
little has as yet been done for elementary figure-drawing. It is 
evident, that art-instruction in France is bent especially upon the 
practical, upon industry, in which department truly magnificent 
works have been published, and in which the Parisian publishers, 
in spite of the efforts of the English, still stand unsurpassed. 
The space at command would have to be exceeded, if only the 
most prominent were to be mentioned. These works have been 
given to all the world ; and it must be sufficient here to have drawn 
attention to them. 
For instruction in linear drawing, numerous works were also