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ion, and a number of excellent machine-drawings by tke pupils, 
had been sent to the Exhibition by this school. 
Finland appeared quite independently in Group XXYI. with 
drawings by pupils, as well as witb aids for teaching. Whoever 
followed the efforts made in behalf of education in this Northern 
province, as they were sketched in the short notices of the country 
and of the objects sent by it, contained in the little pamphlet 
which had been provided, must have feit himself strongly attracted 
towards the specimens on exhibition. 
The country is comparatively poor, and its industry is still in a 
low state of development; navigation and agrieulture are still the 
main sources of income for its inhabitants; nevertheless educa- 
tional affairs have looked up most satisfactorily during the last ten 
years, and are rapidly progressing, especially since they have 
passed from under the control of the church (1867). More atten 
tion has also been paid to drawing, since the creation of the 
“ Direction of Manufactures,” a special board whqse duty it is 
to look to the elevation of the industries. Sunday and Evening 
Schools for the practice of drawing have been opened in all of the 
raore important places; and the higher artistic training of work- 
ing-men is provided for by the Industrial School at Helsingfors. 
In most of the People’s Schools drawing is also practiced; and 
specimens from the Normal School, and from the Teachers’ Semi- 
nary at Jyväskyla, were on exhibition. The results were modest, 
but gave evidence of a good method. The copies for elementary 
instruction, by G. A. Hippinsen, are, however, too small, a fault 
which was also to be censured in the drawings by the pupils. 
But on the whole it was apparent that this people has a talent 
for form, and that it will only need good teachers to educate its 
artistic feeling.