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ART EDUCATION. 
of execution to the Art School which has been in existence there since 1843. In 
a like manner the education and the improvement in the taste of the working 
men in other departments of industry, lias been brought about by these schools, 
which are scattered all over the country, and are to be found in all the larger 
manufacturiug cities and centres of industry; this is true of the progressTin 
cotton manufactures; the improvements in the forms of glassware, especially 
of that for every-day use; the better design and more skilful execution of 
higher-class goods in porcelain, China, and earthenware; the refinement of 
style in English iron-wares, &e. The practice of sending art objects and 
Standard examples from the Kensington Museum to all parts of the country, 
enables many working-men, to whom a joumey to London would be utterly 
impossible, to see good models, by setting these models down before their own 
doors, as it were. 
“ The exhibition made in dass 90 by the Science and Art Department of the 
Kensington Museum afforded sufticieut proof for the truth of the Statement 
just made in regard to the influence of the 1 Schools of Art.’ Exquisite free- 
hand drawings from all sorts of objects, water-colors, geometrical and arclii- 
tectural drawings, colored photographs from art objects in the Museum (to be 
used as patterns and as copies), works of sculpture, statues, &c., showed the 
colossal progress made by England within the last ten years, in this branch of 
industrial instruction, which may indeed be called the most important.” 
The following is from the “ Keport on Instruction in Drawing,” by Prof. B. 
Niemtschik, of the St. L. Technical High School at Graz (Austrian Eeport 
of 1807, vol. vi. part xi. pp. 308, 309):— 
“ A cursory glance at the drawings exhibited by the Science and Art Depart 
ment, South Kensington, London, was suflicient to eonvince the observer, that 
they came from an institution whieli deserves the name of an Art Industrial 
School in the best and füllest acceptation of the word. This opinion was up- 
held by the examples and copies, as -well as by the work of the pupils. The 
examples and copies had been selected with rare knowledge, and eomprised 
every thing that can be of Service to the pupils in all the various departments- 
they are not only perfectly well fitted to awaken the feeling of the pupils for 
>eautj of form and color, to raise tliem above the common level, and to pre- 
serve the artistic element in the industries, in spite of Wholesale production by 
machmery; but they will also teacli the growing artist that moderation is an 
essential requisite for the attainment of ethical truth and absolute beauty in 
art-mdustnal production, and that it is imperatively necessary to avoid so- 
called artistic effects, if solidity is to be attained. No trace of such perverse- 
ness is to be found in the copies: they are conceived and executed in a purely 
artistic spirit. This is undoubtedly the most natural way to diffuse artistic 
elements among the people, as well as to make artists of tliose engaged in 
industrial pursuits.” 
The following list of the names of the places wliere the English Art Schools 
subordinate to the South Kensington Museum are located is taken from the 
Keport of the Science and Art Department. The list also shows the population 
of each place in 1871, and the number of students attending eacli school for 
the year ending July 1, 1872. Totalst 122 schools, with 22,845 students.— 
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