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the workers, taught in the schools and museums existing in their midst.
In conclusion, the fact must be admitted that in this Report it has been impossible to present anything like a complete statement of the facts brought out and noted down in the course of the investigations made before writing it; but probably enough has been written to prove the great value of the institutions that the Austrian authorities sought to illustrate at their recent grand World’s Fair, and to show the beneficial effects produced wherever they exist, upon the industries of the country, and in the general education and improvement in art and taste of-the wliole people.
One fact is proven, standing firm as a rock, by the united testimony of all the European savants, wdio claim to speak with authority on this subject; that is, that if any improvement is to take place in the Art-Industry of the country, it must come from the better education of the people in Art, and this must commence with popular instruction in free-hand drawing. It is also shown that such knowledge as is imbibed at the Drawing School, the Technical Educational Class, Art- Gallery, and the Art-Industry Museum, educates men to feel more interest in their work; that new methods of doing old- time work suggest themselves to the man who has been taught in the principles upon which the success of his work depends ; and finally that a vast improvement can rapidly be brought about by earnest work, even though it be true that—
“ So slow is
The growth of what is excellent—so hard To attain perfection in this nether world.”
LOUIS J. HINTON.