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worth tenpence; this other one, made from precisely similar materials, both in quality and quantity, is an example of our new style, and is worth ten shillings.” The difference consisted in the improved form and simple quaintness of the designs burnt on the sides of the new examples of the potter’s art. No two are made alike.
" The artist workman who has shown an aptitude for this work is the son,” says Mr. Doulton, "of a journeyman wheelwright, and would in all likelihood have continued a wheelwright, like his father, if there had not been a local branch of the South Kensington School near his home to which he went, out of curiosity in the first instance, and afterward continued to attend because of the new and absorbing interest awakened within him. At this school the manufactory found him, and drew him to a field of usefulness where he could turn his developed talent to account, not only to the profit of himself and his employer, but to that of the nation. Some other less apt and artistic man could fill the wheelwright’s position which he vacated.”
Mr. Doulton laughingly said that his old brown pitcher was one of the objects collected by Mr. Cole to form what he termed his Cabinet of Horrors : i. e., objects in every day use, devoid of taste, art, or beauty in any shape. It is devoutly to be hoped that no one will act on his idea and make a similar collection on this side of the Atlantic. The bare thought of such a contingency is fearful to contemplate, and we must be held blameless if it should arise.
So much space is already used that it becomes impossible to give as full an account of the many exhibits made by the German States illustrating the subject as could be wished, remembering their great value. Brief allusion may be made to some of them, or rather to the result.
An instance has been cited.of the influence of the German system of Technical Education upon the English nation, which, awake to its deficiencies in this particular, noted what its Teutonic and Swiss neighbors had achieved. This is a good recommendation as to their value. In this country no other proof is needed of the efficiency of German home-training than the quality of the citizens sent thence to our shores.