HUNGARY. 
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A REVIEW of the state of art-eclucation in Hungaiy must for 
the present confine itself to that which is now in process of forming, 
as art matters are still in an exceedingly primitive condition in 
this country, as compared witli the countries of the West. Hun 
gary, for a long time to come, will have to direct her attention to 
the more realistic educational necessities of her people, and will 
have to provide for general culture by means of the People’s and 
Middle Schools, before the ideal elements can be thought of. It 
is very questionable, therefore, whether the efforts for the advance- 
ment of art-education, now making throughout the country by the 
government, will be able to bear fruit in the immediate future, 
and whether it would not be wiser to apply all the means at com- 
mand to the speedy creation of a stable basis for general educa- 
tion, leaving it to time to develop the ideal elements organically 
and naturall}-. As a matter of course, the nation, for some time 
to come, would then have to abandon the competition witli other 
nations, as far as the highest products of civilization are con- 
cerned ; and it may be a question whether this is possible at the 
present day. The spirit of the time carries every thing along, and 
those who would stand still must go to the rear. Hungary must 
therefore hasten forward with the others as well as she can, but 
she will have to be very careful in filling up the fearful voids which 
have been left by an idle past. Sound productivity in the domains 
of art and of Science can only be expected after intellectual means 
of inter-communication in all directions shall have been provided. 
Forced production must necessarily be unhealthy, and will either 
rest upon foreign Supports, or will be nothing but an empty show. 
This was the impression made by the Hungarian exhibition upon 
all who mean well to the cause. As long as Hungarian artists 
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