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deprived of our Shakspeare, our Milton, and all the other bright stars in the galaxy of literature.
So it is with the museums of Arts as applied to Industry. They are silent instructors, with no record other than so many visitors in so many years. The schools of arts generally attached to the museums stand upon a different footing, as it is possible to keep some account of the work they perform.
The author of the special programe clearly saw the difficulty with respect to the museums. Although he forbore to enlarge upon that theme, he clearly indicated how desirable it would be if such information as to the extent and reach of the influence of museums of Arts as applied to Industry could be given. This is still unknown, except as it can be gathered from the opinions of those best entitled to speak upon the subject, and we believe no attempt was made to show its extent, by any of the states which have found their profit in establishing centres of instruction in the Fine Arts as applied to Industry.
The Austrians certainly did not attempt to show, in a direct way, how they had been and are still benefited by their beautiful museum. The endeavor will be made, ere this Report is closed, to state how they did show’, indirectly, somewhat of the profits reaped by them, in payment of their enlightened encouragement extended to the Fine Arts and to Industry.
The managers of the Vienna Museum of Art and Industry would, in all probability, have made a fuller exhibit of the scope and object of their institution, if it had not been for some disagreement, or dispute, as to the proper space they should occupy in the exhibition, which occurred, it is believed, between them and the Chief Manager. Their energy was thus circumscribed and turned into other channels; as, for 1 »stance, helping to arrange the different sections of the Austrian Department to the best advantage. Thus, in the court where the Bohemian cut-glass w T are was shown, Herr Loley- ttieyer, the chief manufacturer, was in constant communication with the museum authorities, consulting with them as to what was best to do. The results of their joint labor looked like a fairy scene, and produced one of the most interesting u