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The Drawing and Modelling School for Glass-Industry at 
Haida (established in 1870) exhibited specimens, in drawings as 
well as in objects practically executed in glass, wliicli were quito 
Superior. The Institution certainly has great talent at its command, 
and it only remains to be desired, that instruction should be given 
more systematically. Unfortunately Ornament is again insufliciently 
cultivated in the lower classes of the City School of this place, and 
landscape and flower drawing is tauglit from the objectionablc 
copies by Hermes. The more talented pupils will finally attain 
to technical skill even by this road; but nevertheless they will 
always remain more or less of amateurs, a fact which was made 
apparent even by the more important specimens of the apprentices 
and journejmen of the special school under consideration. Flow 
ers are well copied from French examples ; but the correct under- 
standing of lights and shadows is generally wanting, as tliere is 
too little drawing from casts. Julien’s heads in two crayons are 
also in use, and some of them had been copied in a truly brilliant 
stjde; but the comprehension of form is not advanced by them. 
Some small heads in water-colors (likewise from French examples) 
were copied with a great deal of technical skill. The flower- 
pieces, frqm color prints, are also entitled to unstinted praise, as 
far as the execution goes. The school still adheres to French 
taste ; it needs good examples of modern tendencies. 
Draiving and Modelling School for Clay-Industry at Znaim, 
(established 1872). — The institution is still in embryo, and it is 
very natural therefore that the results were moderate. The course 
of instruction and the Originals in use are good. 
The Drawing and Modelling School for Glass-Quincaillerie 
(fancy goods) at Gablonz (established 1870) was represented, on 
the whole, by very creditable productions ; the models and copies 
in use (mostly from the Austrian Museum) sliow the modern ten 
dencies. There were also pretty flower and landscape drawings 
(Calame). The only defect to be noted relates to the execution in 
drawing from casts ; the drawings are made with crayon on v lute 
paper in line-manner, and figure-drawing is taken up too soon. 
The practical results of the institution merit full recognition. 
Since 1872 a special school for the chemistry of glass has been 
United with it.