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The same is true of the G-ramrnar Schools of New York, in 
which only landscapes, animals, flowers, &c., are drawn. The 
attempt to delineate geometrical bodies from nature is made only 
occasionally, and, in view of the inefficient preparation of the 
pupils, showed but little success. Some of the higher schools in 
New York exhibited framed drawings (bj T pupils of from twelve 
to fifteen years) of vessels, Utensils, &c., as well as copies of 
heads, landscapes, and animals (after Hermes and Julien), which 
were of somewhat better execution; but these specimens were 
treated rather as “pictures,” than as illustrations of the course 
of instruction. A number of Ornaments (from Bauer’s exam- 
ples), were so evenly copied that it appearedr doubtful whether 
the different names with which the drawings were signed repre- 
sented also different hands. In Chicago it is the same; map- 
drawing is carried on extensively here, but the main stress appears 
to be laid upon the colored borders surrounding the oceans. The 
regulations for drawing-instruction in this city (paragraph six- 
teen) emphasize only the importance and-the value of the subject 
in its relation to the various branches of industry, but contain no 
definite programme for the several stages of instruction. 
The Common Schools of Cincinnati exhibited the work of their 
scholars in truly magnificent bindings, one subject having been 
drawn by the whole dass, so that the same volume frequently 
showed the same figure fifty to sixty times. 1 The drawings con- 
sisted mostly of small geometrical figures, stars, &c., executed 
tolerably evenly, and there was at least ä certain principle in 
tliem. Among the work of the Teachers’, Normal, and High 
Schools, on the contrary, sins against every tliing like good taste 
were to be met with, that made one’s hair stand on end. 
As aids for instruction in drawing, Spencer’s Drawing-books 
were exhibited in the schoolhouse, the subjects being represented 
on the left half of the paper, while the right is left blank for the 
copy by the pupil. The various stages proceed tolerably system- 
atjcally from simple geometrical forms to the representation* of 
vessels, Utensils, &c. 
To judge from the specimens exhibited, drawing is best taught 
1 Tliis had been done by Order of tbe autboritiea.