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of training all within the confines of the state. No matter how successful or unsuccessful their efforts toward that end may be, the method is sound.
As, for instance : at the Art-School, where the term begins in October and ends in July, pupils who attend the lectures contend for a prize at the end of each year. Female students have the same rights as the males. The admission fee to the Art-School is one dollar; tuition fees for the preparatory school, two dollars and fifty cents ; for the higher school, four dollars and fifty cents, half-yearly.
There are ten professors, who have brought to them all the work they can perform. This is a point worth noting. The method of teaching involves practical work. It is no mere copying, but the real thing itself, at which the students can work with the professors. It would also seem to indicate that the school is a success, that their labor is in such demand as it is, by the manufacturers of Vienna.
The School and Museum aim to improve and elevate public taste. Although the most recent they are not the only institutions founded in Vienna for a somewhat similar purpose, and therefore care must be taken not to ascribe to the Museum alone results only partly brought about by its agencies.
Technical, scientific education it does not attempt to touch ; yet the imparting of this involves oftentimes the teaching of a right taste and feeling for the beautiful.
' There is no need for the Art and Industry Museum to stir m this matter, as very ample provision has been made to meet the needs of the whole country in this respect. Technical instruction is of very long standing in Austria. At the beginning of the present century, three important schools 'Were in operation, and others were instituted, long before the neighboring German States had moved in this direction.
The Polytechnic Institution in Vienna, as organized in 1815, was the culmination of efforts begun in 1765, to shape the instruction of schools to meet the special wants of pupils m their future mechanical or commercial occupations. It is °ne of the best equipped schools of its class in Europe. If it Were combined with the Art Museum and School, it would stand next to the Science and Art Department at South Kensington, at present the largest centralized institution of its