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ART  ED  UCATION.

nothing  of  any  importance  was  to  be  seen,  if  we  except  a  few  columns.

The  “  Normal  School  ”  exhibited  some  drawings  of  outline-ornaments
  (by  female  teachers)  from  bad  copies,  and  shaded  Ornaments
in  crayon,  hard  in  execution,  after  Bilordeaux,  Julien,  &c.  With
such  examples  it  is  impossible  to  educate  taste.  The  same  is  true
of  the  specimens  from  the  “  Pensionat  de  Bienfaisance  pour  Jeunes
Filles  ”  and  the  “  Escola  Regia  das  Mercieiras.”  The  choice  of
examples  in  the  latter  school  is  fitted  to  debase  rather  than  to  elevate
  taste.
The  “  Association  Commercial,”  whose  seat  is  in  Porto,  and
wliose  labors  in  behalf  of  the  art-industry  of  the  country  are  quite
meritorious,  exhibited  a  number  of  decorative  polychrome  Ornaments ­
  (in  plaster  and  wood),  whieli  were  very  successful  in  the
imitation  of  Moorish  forms.  The  pamphlets  on  the  activity  of  the
association  were  exhibited  in  the  Hall  of  Industry,  in  frames  under
glass  ;  and  the  reporter  found  it  impossible  to  gain  access  to  them.