The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-02-05 00:00:00

DORCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART.

The annual mail's., 01 the trioade sod subscribers
this school wae held is ths sew room at the
Gooney Holism oo Ilium lay best, whin to. chair
WIN tete° by Ueseral supourted by the
HA. H. Brandt Ray. I. W. Kalps, the Mayor (H.
I)irdeo, E.g.), Mr. A. P %tr. A. H. Lade. sod
Mr. B. B. Ift,oler (a.m. sea.) Taste was • fair st•awl.
soca, oussideriag the uslavourabls ASA of the
weather.

At tee oomnirocerneat of the proceedings, the
OB•1141414 Cane I on Kr. fisher to read his report,
which WWI follows .
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-9-Oe-O-7Motiiie•---. in premien@ their annual rep rt.
hare evwy sslli to be grateful for tho sawed which
hat ettend .d I air *Mote during the pet year; and lb y
take ibi,..pp d &unify of i xpreseing their sinter* Gould
la Well friend. sal suppor Ars Pb., bay., gengrouely
Mid thaw to overcome their numerous Dot-
Ins the roar ...Vera I lupOinut Ob• 11•04 •••• taken pied
as. ChCusuat moss ol It. ochool. rlr.t. It. dhool
at Maned' bees model into the new buildieg provided for
It. Tides premed are admirably sodebed for 1.. re-
quirements of an Art School. aed rerafeet svon7 .1701 e nee
10 1, .11 ng, hooting, cute, model a. (ateliers. and sops:dug
by eridole the canto of it. dudes* oaa ho promoted,
and their work helped forward la dory way. Tito emoi-
elides feel that it. led step hos dos bees Mikan towards
greatly crusades de dope of the oohed and its 00011•-
guest folded for good. Semodly, sk. 46401.017dr of
too adool has bed .Gored. amid sow tornalsates with the
dead yore. lodged of. as heretdors. in the mouth of
Jose is that aLlaskeeriptome will become dos to Jaonary
of doh yew. Thirdly. a resolution was dosed by the
committee that forth. future the ouster, Instead of being
paid a fixed diary, should dodos • proportion of this
devised' fees sad it. whoa .4 10. Go recommit anat. thos
&tag Um • wiz.. direct inland la the prosper( of the
'oboe and in toe rod te of toe ()undimmed •
The great dilllcolty dee eammittee has bed to dotal with
has leen want of fonds, °sus a by th• espouses of the
school bodies for severe years grodually wedded with-
out • earrepowilnit iocresie of inoomo. Al the ooto-
misdeeds of UM • balance of over £7ll was doe to the
treadrer. of which. happily, cal: 1:30 now remade. As
mon than Pd. am ant woo cep mid on the am fund-
tore. Me debt might fairly b• Gouged to the mit year's
dopiest ; but the o it:naives are mast redact sat to hamper
thou !stud mound, with any poet liabilitim and air,
therefore, mating dram as ed re to wipe out it. debt at
ones ; and they are pleasod o say that proxies@ to the
amount of Cld 17a. t ,orards h• object had already been
renewed. which I.•Ved • below» due to lb. treaded of
£ll7a. TO* loom •o- tee ech of le drrived from throe
•Gar•••—•mo•ly, sitb.c-iptene. • tudenii fees. and the
Government grant, Toe subeeription list (lambs to the
eddy of thou, all., kindly ceovadd tee tics for
additional eubecriptiond he beta nearly doubled, and the
committee duped to d rive an increase of income from
the stodents foss ; but it must take rims folly t devolve;
the rewound of the echo ii, •• 4 • root of £3O a roar must
always boa heed burden up in It. Too oondoltdoe osonot
class their report without an earner' appeal to the public
for @toady ailed coutinuoits support in order that the we-
ld/epee sad eiltaierief of the echoed may be maintained.
Altar all Us* chid oleo owl oifject of such on luetitotion
Is to emourag• loduetrial art stood the working oldie@
Drawing plays • more leapor out part in th• ivory day
life of Coolish artidne than writing. for It la' the written
language of the workshop." The majority 01 the boye of
our schools will in after life at moods, carpenters,
inochaidos, and the like, war, oftdn bard to undoestand
and mats • drawing thou they will bare to read or wrlt•
a letter. If or•over, indoetrial art is of the greatest value
In odium up • larger field f employmoot for women.
Whop the Eagllsh people °onside, how muck is now being
done in Ytall4P, Germany. and Austria. to encourage Art
In order 11 enable their monitors to en eaten their special
, toddle-leo. thoy may well bei stimulated to do more than
they have done is yet 1, oid io like manner the great
indootrld of their own land.' . .

The Hoff. 82011 TART spologinkl to the members of
the committee, to whom he stated on Thursday last
the school was free of debt. Shoo then several bills
had been presented eigain4 the school, and also in •
matter of about Et he had been disappointed.
Besides that, In going over the sem-hate for the
hundredth time, he had arrived at • different result
to what he bad the 99 times previonely. It had been
a very difficult t ask indeed to unravel the accounts of
the echo.), and it wee only a few hours before coming
there that he really felt mrtala what their liability
we.. They were undoubtedly EIS to the bad, but be
could not believe such an mothuaieetic meeting as
that he saw before him could separate without giving
him promises for thet amount at all mate. (Hear,
hear, and !masker.) £l5 and the Art School would
be free from debt, linden admit on its 'lockets future.
(Applause.)
Mr. Bogga (the Heiden mbar) then presented his
report as followe.—
in premnting my rep irt of the Dorchester School cil
Art for the year endiag Aunt 314, 1863. I beg to oaf
that this school has been *A in Mil during the poet rear
by the following students :—ln toe day class. 40: evening
rhea, 26-66. In the mind grade smination in May
toil result. were :—ln mdl drawing, four wan—Carrie
H. Allardyee, Mary B. Orlap is, Susan B. Memel, and
Suomi Tambora. !math& four paree—Jullanne
Good, Annie GJolfell guy Hartle. and Lle• J.
Wilson. Geocri,try, one paar—annie Gra:Hollow. &e.t.a
student. sent ID adraorect and 26 andante seat 199
elemeatary works to South Kensingt in. level Consgen.
tion : Chrtilloates awarded—i F,gure—First, Annie
Goodfellow ; mooed, Satan Mammal •, nth Martel
Williams. I ()brutal se or b rtbdar cerde—Ftrst. Amy
Sill • seread, Julianne Good ; taint, Victoria &ameba
3 Chias or terra cone painting—No compealon—First,
Amite Goodfellow. 4. liementery water coloure—First,
Florence Cross wooed, 00.1.10,t livens Lthird, Vice:eta
Beneath.. & Shaded geometric models—Ytret, Georidana
Green : wend, Walter When ; third. Cl/Mille Vom.
6. ftures from copies in minim—First, Mary Brown;
second, Hilda Marriott; third. limbers Irish."
The Moron, with great pleasure, moved the adop-
tion of the report. He thought they might congratu-
late themselves upon the very satisfactory state of the
School of Art at the present time. As their worthy
secretary bad put it to them, be wee quite sure such a
large and enthusiastic meeting as they bad before them
that evening woad not allow the School of Art to
remain longer in debt, seeing that the amount was so
very trifling—only EIS. He was very pleased Indeed
to see the school safely launched in its new room; he
hoped the number of the salon:dime and students
would coating* to increem, and that In inters they
would see the School of Art S 'wishing as it did in
other places. (Applause.)
Mr. Luz= Pori said be had been Naked to woad
the adoption of the report, which had been ably
moved by the worthy Mayor. In doing so be was
sore he weld ooly state very much as be bad done,
that with all the new and laereased accommodation
which they bed there, and with the very great
advantages they now had, they ought to aoticipate,
and be was sure they would have, not only a great
accession of funds, but also an increased number of
students. (Hear, bear.) As one of the oldest
members of the committee (although, perhaps,
recently he had not iatteit led aa often as he
should have done) be must gay be fully agree I with
clause 1,1%, 3of the report, by which their muter wee
to be paid by result& He thought this would be •
very great glandes to him, not only to get more
pupils, but also to force and push on those who were
now seder hint, in order that be might himself get an
theremis of the grant at South Kensington. Oas thing
he should wish to Impress upon all married p opts,
that was married people having families in Dor-
chester (and he thought D irahestee people
were pretty well blessed In that respect), the very
great advantage it was to them, and also to the %boot
of Art generally, to send their children to the school
young—that was as young as Mr. Baker could take
them. For his own part, he Mad entered three boys
under nine, and Mr. Baker gave 111 very good report
of them. He considered be gained • two-fl 1 advantage
by this—the advantage of a very fi t.r•te &location
In drawing at • very molmato fee; for they all knew
how essential it was now in modern riitioati n, whether
for the mechanic, for the young in ii going into the
army, or anything else, • man always getting • very
greet number of marks for knowing drawing well. The
other advantage he got was this—actisfeotioa in know.
lag be was supporting an institution which was doing
a great deal of good la thetown ai neighbourhood,
and which he wee quite sure wou!•I continue to do
good. There was one thing, he obserred had been left
entirely oat of the report; be did not know whether
it was the modesty of the rmently.nop dote I weerytary,
bulbs did not in any way mention I ere had been •
change in the appointment of the secretary of the
institution But he (Mr. Pope) wee sore they must
congratulate themselves on having ni efficient and
energetic • secretary as Mr. Fisher. (Applause.)
He took it it was his modesty or • imething of that
kind that accounted for the coulee ,n, sic the heads of
the reports were settled in oroandttes, and the &tells
were left to Mr. Fisher to draw up. Still, be thought
the report should have mentioned the fact Opt there
had been • change in the secretaryship and the omen-
Cation of the officers. (Applause)
The Outage, expressed the hops that as the sum
gal 110 very mall the suggestion o. the Mayor and ,
others would be carried out, aid the small debt paid !
off. He then delivered the following address :

In accepting the Invitation with which I have been honoured
to eddrem you this evening on the subject of Art. I fool
that the dbßoulty of say pooltion slime mainly from the 1.01
that I am not an artist. Of what is, It soy perhaps be
asked, are Schools if Art if those who study la this ara to
be lectured by pimple who bore not 'hamar.. soqulre I Um
Bret rodlmosts of theithkel skill. Thus conaderstlott deterred
OM from placing myself In a Wm poutlo4 If Art wore a
shnole homogeneous trade fde whlch oothmg but special
halals( the requislth. Its eiemeats, on Um contrary, are •to
various sad COlapking that few can &Vida proecieacy in all of
them, sad the qaollties which mike up excelletho• am mumble
of wander Vestment, and may he cultivated In other broaches
of industry without being spplisd to the production of • work
if Art. The history of Art, moreover, Is common proper'''.
and Um origin and early phases of it may perhaps be better
dealt with by those who hath mode • study of the arts of Ilf•
in asthma rather thth of Us* Ono arts In peril:Mar. 111. to
r.rt anhlwit that I Purpose to divot. to. remarks
whkb I shah make on to. present occsnou. B fort doper so,
however he proceeded to classify the mime agencies which
have to'. cothederei In treating of th• obi! lloPhY of hrt.
Speaklg grit of the aft of climate, be gel I—lt r.q dres
no speeded warmth to observe that cllmatta play* • Mat Pan
In lath» clog the art of • country. No one can doubt that
the sombre hues of our pious simply relict the dttl n,es
of our atmolobore. Who would expeut that the Ilef brdOtt
colours of mother. painters should be begotten of •
November day in tbe euburhe of London? Anal Ii the •bol•
waylb. abet of euallght or la• abeam* of it hes hod •
marked effect on thchltecturo and eru •verytaing maltructed
on the round. Tb• same lines sad niches which In (mil
would produce • well &Steed shadow, In &wt.," would pro-
duce nothinimittlerad
tzbelar. Them, gam, toomamma°. 4 hest
• odd hem the fern welsh we Inv to our build-
foga aM toe prokirkiol mmilert of as ikeith dwelling has
bon With an a MAW' if iteessilq. Itk C 4 Milo arohlWouve

•I lei North and the defeleal stile of Southern limo. by.
been ao much the reed% of climate e of inheritance, and
ham be.. coped by th• neoseety •1 obtelnine etude. or
she.ter, as the case may be. Tim loch p Anted roof, ettoch
I. Ii gloat is enemy to gie,ne the eters of 00501,..114
CON., d. “you ge r0L11110,1,111 In Ufa toe MAI
itia..,tte lyr
1464, lantbs: e
roosefeli ol
cl...ft
geogrirc., botsidade, hem not always had the tile, Of
e growth of unmet,o toms, and lb.. who in
the isorth of France or parte Scielinan have sat thiver-
log • n it frosty day with rde esd rushee through the lo.ty
doorway or ID al the tow 04,111,001.180L1 window Moog the
sto. uumoote floor, and out et tie °Oro 11501000 j set
oleos hare meted tha. the 1nd.11113 • of dIfILS.4I had bet
some., and • hat th+ beauties of •ti *IVO 04 steeple.
tune ban eel c mete more clot ly to to• nefloo ebb gave
II bath. We may net it suede bow ter lafc.
ii. oith 0,41 tuay tue ode slag...ems—mos entitled the .t f •
amity). there cast be no doubt that Art has grow.. up prite
piths with the mytheettee. moi ihat all toe-
dependence has existed 1101,100,10 IL 0111 ohm breathes of
human CIAILILOII, has bee saki that the country is ba,r,ey
whirl h., no biiterY. ea 1 oat Linty happy is the toad& too
of society to which Art b •• bot teen stimolated by legit
events Tbe emetic.. utitatel by the .0. 501 Omits la
sculpture moo mainly Irma the prent.soil ifiwnt by then
to mhicoi sports. In idt mane lb. eta f nos of Egypte&
an resulted from the dominion of the pneetoool, "Sidi left
little scope for lILLLIMIALLI Mork isdnann eli Pam.'
representation to a dead Mel of aniformity. It we not until
Cluistianity latrodueed • religion .4th. feeling the • wide
fled we °posed for the snot in the epsomite of the hasher
ern3Uoas Perhaps the troth of this observation cannot be
better shown than by eneperiog the cbarat.enetec times
which took pee In repreentMoos of tha Emblem I
Maternity which has formed pat of the symbolism o/ many
r•lWionn The 'Min toe expression of the Mewe appears
to me to be the chief characterot a of the Influeos which
Christianity sertided upon Art 1., Europe. Maseru may
be said of modem Ars, 5e1tei.....1.y there coo be no doubt that
the power ot deoctiog e harbor emu.oo 11 .01
bear tavourab:• comparison with thy of the works of Ooh-
s:tufty A comparien Ito Jetsam Art will °midst tint wie•
Ami the moo obserwatioos end apply (Knelt to tan Qr.".
• Ear 14110ro enduoug, in ray 01,1110... Lbs.,. n.y 10,1114 IL
the Wenn my whisk An thus boars to the elevate'.g I deems
of those virtues which thriManity teas itics steto 1, c .m1:floor
with the sense of duty t the coemoowelth which we Lest
from the Romans. Under this Mar should also be t•loll lilt
am tent the effect elude laws customs 0.114 101.10 I 03., and
If. poltUel gest ono of the day are likely to nave up in Art
On this rebjec , whi at ;my feallot rues eo high it woukl be
teem o expect unbelted Jeepi t to be form it toms
•ho are Couservativ. In their trade-odes ell tent Ii the
infigence which wealth end refinement have always exercied
i.rea of heniut 1040.117. will lb. r. but
tilllikod::::"l7:o="l":.kri;l;sraritiMuicbeibenusese which oats to .eth iodini.l.o4 lb.
all. On the other hukd the min or tic 4 cialid old exceed'
on the which greed of gain has boil. deltas' w Art, sod
bemuse weal b and freed m nni ca,abb of Mum he will
propose too tirade remedy of nestroying both, ream.
Willa ti ahem's. au eboilehiug tinder the
dealgoation of maarned I .611.11001” WI the accumulated
womb, knowledge, and •opereonos 111111012 hue. beo be-
queathed to me by our fure:athere Then, when every oath
• ble own plot of toed sad proclaim nothing bin what is
squired f.s. hie Inunedlate tote, it may be peminel that every
man will pent his own peat e Whether mankind will be
happier or o.berelas In Ikleb an elysium my be it neater of
optnion. On. Magog may, however, at let b• antimpate 1—
flasore's mobile:nen will certainly Me solobiewed the pumps
and realties of the Ids before be is reduce to Menai his
portrait token gratis to the style of thee drawing.. Moth
might be maid on the subject ol the modem 4 pert of
drawing it time permitted. and the Memos which the
prevalence of @Mahe =stone, Ine had in promoting or
retarding art, on the verious muerte, awake, rue erne.,
and on the materiats obtainable for sated to wore upon,
Thee, to gire only a single earn de, no me who bag traveled
in Sweden end other countries. where suitable Uinta sr is Mau 1.
dent for to. cometruction of beetle,' 00.0 hare feted to oh eve
the effect which it has had in retarding the growth of arch.-
Scrum, aod on the other bend the p -.velem of suitsb, etone
in other pima hes gem • great Impulse to Art, We m
sow turn to the sonsideratien of Art in it. racial epode
That temperament has mach to do with the development al
the higher phases of Art I have little doubt, but it would be
emote to mums that boo mee Art has thriven it.. owe som•
sees of in.. morn than others, the cut lwation or the n gled
of It ought on that account to be ettributal to racial causes.
We must enderour 1, soositain to what extent the other
elements Mich nisei up excellence in Art have beeu present
or aberitiin the commulty before we are in it p etion ter
determine how far the mutt con he atusbuted to race. My
impresima is that the gooses! tendency is to over-res the
influents of rem in the progrego of civilietion and in neglect
the other sus s which I have spoken of. It is co ily when
individuais ham bee. transplanted early In youth, and broUgot
up ander the Inatome of ni. i institutions, that the otheestital
cembilities of se it'd the indent. of heredity can be Wry
judged of, sod even then such cases canoot be accepted es
anally determineng the quell. until c 41100t0 equally of
advantages has ben monis... On the other bend the
'Mimeo* of heredity, though it is it problem very difficult .4
solution le na. beyond pot Mer of demonstration. To apply
three coMideratione to the or gin and deveopment of art, the
only way of approaching the etisfactory study of the gumboil
is to she note of the performances isf peens belongl (ti
4 (mot race and lo different Mire of culture wh s
wholly untaught, and notice whole. In their Ant mimeo et
drawing the thew such it. not powers of represent itiou 0.
to warrant the id.. of c mresiltal inoiu day. Tell have molar
round to do, sod the result is Mown it tho rude drier/in:o
which are exhibited this •V•Ilillg. From time 10 tem. *then
opertunity preened 'belt during the let for yen I have
obtained drawl.. from untaught ab stigma of d Loma
savage countrie who had cone to Ingoo.l, by taking them
Into • room one by one •, as to prevent their copying from
one enter, and after glen; then. pen or pent I an 1 • piece
of paper, I have asked them t do their best to nuke • draw-
ing of me or some other person or object in the ro•ren. I haws
noel the me with untaught c suntry Wren and a lets of
our own rum, and I have bad the drawiogs mounted on cut.
In nide • way es to enable • commieoo to be form el between
them and the first attempt. of savages Itaviog takeo every
possible precaution, I am perfectly modill el of the geouine
nem .4th. drawings exhibited, which It may be observe! are
nsetSll °Mined by one p.m 10 LIU have been pr cured by
different ohs severe in different Pert. of the country. It would
take soil" ILLOIII to CLIAL•CLOriOO WI the drawing.. I have
della al the Ituglith drawing' as for as pesible by the
peculiarities of the perform.... Thus I have place I on on•
card all figures in which the hands and feet or. represented in
right lines ilk. it toasting fuck. On another I nave placed to-
gether el those &nonage of men and animals Is which the
draughtemn whilst repreetinting the head in peel • have
shewu b rth eyes on MO side of th• head, evidently forgetting
that only ooe ey• could be seen on the side of the bed, no -
eritetanding th it all the drawing, were done trom Nature. On
modem mil I haws pi:attester ell representing a human form
In which the heed only is strewn and thehody omitted, them-nes
lesing drawn si homicide( out Of the head and the Memel feet
protruding from the Inter part of the head Hos It may be
noticed that some of the drawing. of it...whir. children
from ex to eleven years of sie oorsipond seedy to one of
• mete Zulu 36 yeas of ago In drawing the &gum of • into
or on animi, the general tendency le to draw them lacing to
the left In pref mem to the right. This may coseibly be the
result of right handedness. In nearly all cam th• heads of
in.. or. r 111,1,1101110,1 '0 largo le pr moniou to the body; toe
reason of this is that the varies, features of the face by habit
▪ strongly Inapreesed on the rolrol. and they require epee to
represent them, whereas the trunk, being • lee p.p.'s part
of the body, le spree.' small in etiolate' en of Its
✓olstivoly Infedir importance rasher than In the true pro.
portion of He bulk in eery cote, w3othor of European or
others, it was ideal that notwithatan•ling the Injunctions to
copy from the Ilium before then the beginner, after kering
commence] his drawing, newer looked 04 -his mold again, all
the sat being done out of his own head. It we never found
possible to mak* the untrained draughtsman copy etch part
tittinfiftnir. The figure are affably signs of the general lien
of the object which the peen has centered in hl 0110 alma.
From this we may perceive how easy it would be for realisUc
representations in the most primitive condition of Art to paes
tab symbolism and the earliest stages of writing on the one
Imod, and into oroanootsUan on tha oth a hand In one of
the figures of it horse drawn by a °metes girl of ton years
odd It w.ll be ma that the bed of the horse la represented
In the form ol • coil. The c,Il la one of the most primitive
forms of ormenthat employed by savages, such as the
Australians, wired, At In another Inseam, that of
Adinueole, au shalt female Zulu, attar Ming • hag time
end Free pains with her perfo mimeo di. produel it figure
with the bead, arena, and logo in the right place, but quize
imperatie and deleted from each other, brag mom-
• try unable to manse them by LOWY of the
body. Being struck with the rem Melanie of thie
flittre to many savege drawing winch I hod seen In wit ch
thei various parte of the body are deeded end jumbled tor
Itolleariminately. I took the paper amy, sod, give her
soother, eked her hi dorm, aisle She the rapmed the
same Sim, the limbs being detached SI before, but In this
ease she put the legs in the position of the hems, end the
arms and beads down below, where the feet Arnold ho.
Another circumstenc wbkh prom that the figurer me
nothing more Um signa of the idea in the erase. mind, is
the fad teat in several mess it will be men that European
obildron rapresetted the Ivo lois on the feet, although the
model always bat the oboes OIL On the other hand, two of
the admit Z ilus, It will be see, took Nodal tore to machete
the Idgela Wed boots on the feat, biomes being quite
unaccentooted to wear Mem this was it part al ths costume
of Europese In general which had especially drawn their
attention_ in some mess the egure is deem lacing full frock
when the modal stood skie wee and WM. twat Taking •
general surrey of the Mole of tee drawings, it may safely
be mid 111.5 no oily can be recognised In the European
over th• GM Metope, On the contrary they show
recoarkeble u cruelty of capenty and piu Pan. SIM* of the
Zulu drawings ere Needy sapotior to ems of If, European
mos, eves there of alultd. !for lel, only In ths ling attempts
that Magee slew themelven the equals of untrained
Summer. Their power of Improve sent It, ID .ny cmes
quite on • per with that of civilise people. The Zolue, as is
well known, • • one el tems rams wh• do not cultivate
drawing or earring to any setae, whilst ther neighbours, the
Bushmen—as interim race In all respsete—sbew much pro
fictioncy in the palatines which they make upaii rh. sod
elsewhere. cede if some f wed., kindly preemie to me
by Miee Fevre, I Goble: the conning. Yet the epecity of
Zola. for Improvement under European WIMP*, is shown
by two very remarkable examples of opttt of Veasetinn draw-
Ingo in emits of gees bead., made at • missi miry station
by native tribes on the fr entier of Zolulan.l. Tbess mosses,
It most be admitted, elth nigh they are only c mem are much
superior to average pert enamel. of European copyists, and
cool I not have bee executed by aa . who had not • perfectly
c eget eye foe form sad col•.ur. In like meaner I exhibit
the eve ling • earring In wood made by Comm Indians on the
NW, coast of Merit., spreenting • woman nursing her
chill, and done I the sties expressionlees style that le
pe 'Win, to the carvin re of than people, and another In Wa-
rdle do.. at a in Mowery station by the sums tribe of
Indians, who hal been taught, in which the Geared o' the
fac read dra eery. as mil on the form of the Infant, Is fatly
aural 1( 1,01 eupotior to the bet Europe= provincial w nit
Oil the tether band, if no great difference io sbo en between the
the ettempte of civilise I and und edited rem, on a whole the
drawings othiblied this evening of If. fire pares:mom of
tearoom shies., and admits show it mar el different. I the
capthity of individuals. Whether the I, Lbw the nee
amongst mime. I hare no Mans of determining from.. not
experiment, thouat I hare reason to boilers It Is also the
cue twith them I would draw .00,11.1 attenUon to the per-
formance of George Cram, a Wiltshire mocha iic, which is
MVOs 00 000 of the tar Is, Thle man, although no Ind
attempted to seer from MMus be/ sm. yet art e menhnnin hie
eye had ben well Mined to form It hls probesion, and his
pert 4111.11.0 11410+1 Ont In very mewl, cootrael to the
others Men at the same Use and from the same object.
To whet extent this itiemellty in the fire attempla of people
may beds, to hereditary tranunissione of quebtker &related
by ancestors le of maw, a qaestion upon Melt lb Is
extremely difilcOlt ii obtain relleble mice,. If eny cele-
brated painter. are known to is,, been closely °emoted with
other minters of merit, those.tha family of Tithe had nine
patters In It, that of Van der veld. contained is. that of
Tonere three, that of Von tyck three, that of Moonllt four,
that of Francisco do Foote six, the of C.arsod six. • remark-
ed s example hae teen brought to Boils within the let month
In fts hoed/ ci Holt, the academicism, In which
three goestions have ben accomplished artiste Me Ism
being the superior of the three. en the cwran In 'find' I hereditaty talent runs with the name mull be quits
••••Inionel. Mid weer* merit runs in collatarsl branches it
leneelly escapes nein. Lanky, we home to °fiend
Monet 'ha. agencies which dethrone the character which
Art edge in any eitintry. the transuumion of inherited forma
Forme of ornament and siyies of arohltecture bare bea
tramniUsd with such unitosken cocci .ttitythat the 'mem
phew which they hive usiergone on olteit aufiniant to
"Ink affnald`ifeng t. determine the place of emelto to
which any work of art betting" atter the lectual history of it
hoe bolo loot. How and for what pewse the firet Ideas of •
Imitating the lot its of 'fetus originate In the human mind
must be left to conject we. F he earliest specimen, of Art '
the hen) coo. Liol/ti see of the bun. Ceeee of
Fr• on, mita of which ore •thilited, show evidence that the I
ert of drawing mum: hive been delivered f0r..,.. Hoe by the '
Fele the Iworliced lb. 0. They ere. In fat, ter in adv.. to
of thy of the first Illtellipt• ..f untaught European. and mews
to which I have alretdy eluded It ee ote reeonable to bap-
po', that the power o r coguie mg a likeness must herr I
the p.m of lxemglln,l one, and It In not unlikely, I
there( es, that Art err have or rinsuld lit If. collect
natural term in stoae and wood emote' log nen and animal,
like he dm k dint n..w exhibits is wb" wa. nwonf" to san
bl workmen on moue of la reeetablance to • horse. ml.!
mime MI the more probable from the aaperstition which on. .
eivilecd oft, n 0000CiaL0 with stone cells, arrowbeis,
and °tn.' worn. of Aq ot prehlooric men which ere f osiid in
the grousid. sod which are eturPosi ii may nnndri" to
none h...., Th• Col.*, have • custom f pre
Nevi. Cllflotla tOL,LII and other objects which reemble living
OneLar•l, and which by night ambellishment are made Into
more " Ina life-like fteellentalloog ef the figitries they

represent. Iron In our own town and country the grooderf of
forme of chalk glue bare peso rise to singular the ones and
helloes on toe part 4 Ons3e pe pl, eh -twine bow Orobtbl• it •
that r.semblmon of this kind may hare on/looted the
earthen iilea of carobs/ likemems in it.. and .00 1, The
hist-dy te the to ang, like ail other promisee In Art and
Nature, may be trea ed uoder the eareral nm le of develop.
meal, demon 1.11 ,0. and content &non or reprodscUm. le the
Are and It. 14, ty pica illuitrati..l. May be quotol In the
won known develuoin 'Ol 04 too groo IS styes 1•1 cleaelon tel
,o able tirchitecture. Laraine. lag in toe Masi at. which
gra. • consbluat.on 04 tbe 10. or in the combine! ea of
in,,ptunt Aesyrlan styles which took leen tu toe Wand
of Cyprus. It would far soc el the limit of the t MI Med
torn. ..11 tee presett tee ea ir A. •iiler Into snythi like
ooladrebeimive •liactien• to i,h,i arg• •labis A I.! th I •eforili
cot'.. the ...a 4.4 pa' Aiii of lei. • thee lo 4,1114 aa
ii..tratioii .418. pr ea* of ifs .eoers toil Watch is Nisei in the
arc of • many po• pie. 4.. Cllor, la bi.•a.l oil printer ock
All, ha done .0. 10 hon ir •,. ou ng ,ialiapliss I soca
cbanms Mks., ft em U,. illy.tr•Llo te oi °Wet 1.6 my .U. 11013
M South Ketuitat at, the u or II .ileer Item& showto4 how
th• redone rep.. rit• ton 4 • boomer lace you neuronal by
smousire anewo of different in lirithiale In 4 • Stars Mora-
@unity( • had-moo,, wbi h wes r• ming of Mottoes, the
only wunnog fe aura of the bum Ln Lase, the other • sone*
Mowing the grad oat changes irhic.b took p.m. In the 0010 •ed
deg pattern In different c 4 i 1n.,. I bare broggla here
mother series Iroen Nen thane& not yet pubdighed, Mowing
how tho carved Inure 4 • mm,, mcgatitot nitoc tem natant
fashion, underwent deovemetion. The beat of tbe ans. a 4
U,. elbows and witete nredmli, mem to be represented by an
ogee cod. Al gnu two coils Irene oh ma on each side of the
body repro...atm t to two ann., 04 by defrost • eaglet °oil
on the from of the hireaft laipsrealild the Iro cons on each
side, whim all ,esetriblance t • human form scalrely d
aim wed, sod the tiOsigit booting c obverted into a more *MI
ornament. Dramas. ,4 ottoer KIM3IIIII3UOII 01 00.011
• ••go esluotted. All this, it may be thou (hi, I. very bat'
bat et sod very bib, groat woul I tame place in dratted
countries, but to PIOCC lb.. taii IC uot the case I tried the
esumiment of Mining a ....moor of ra 1011. dragr,nts of
II .rent gulden., and sub tome i lota to toe prone of
11.. in, thous copied mg dim.nly by la.. people, .11 4
oh a bad tittle golie a ct ra of instructioa an drawing
oth Vlf. lit 0.1011 I prollin ate). A .ch person wee
imtructed to e my from the lag. c noy tony nod not allowed to
m. tb• +in 001,41 pr. 041•4 1•, s tow tbe Olson e talk
;ems ti soumium.y tio too part of toe dretinhiainert. The
retake who turd ou a soma of carrit oh ,w that.
1,11 10 ,10•4, and Very 1110011 • 4th. tissraetst
1..,. pisiCa, a,IW, lailenthrg 1004 .11 Were islii.Sl4l p.inirtail of
oar C• 11 1 aOO into bed Mon twiie. 10 41.0, souse beim gotta
artrtta. It 04414 take 100 1.14 to de. ibe Woes
draer.uns ; thee cur bo II mond diereerds by any thuee
preeaut who are immerged In the eunliret. Ikon drawiag t.
mortal tu 18. ore. iu witioh tha cop, took place. Tbne
tetweap 04 to innate, • the proems by oh d 3 changed took
plane la Me (01101.414 or. anents or 431140 V. Although the
....Widow mil .tar dillegol in rodent tutu thirstier of the
pen over witch the Gear. 01 thialsoleittio“ may hare 00011
spread, it Is wath nit doubt by • olotilar promo ,A soecialarre
cop ea thin the trailii.tba &Maly 1, Were brought about, and
ern me Moe amble I to geder.tood their aleanitif, when ad
Muer clue to lbw heetecy bag Nee 104. It al4e frog meetly
happens that coomderabie gm. occur to the aeries of Mess
wire aka ige • lo emaditten • or this 0 00000.1313 r link • haring Moo
tom, noterithat...dmi which a 1. 011.. pobt• by ootiesteas
• kaatabile of &Wed I ire', or ore* twat sad dilisisra to .oeir•
two M. or tor to Walt* the Varlet/ell 00 and by this
Memo to mg ga to each ite Ira* plait* ia *pilaw* II not Is
tune 1., coaddlion them resales I WIG balm Intl. to my
about el:bouts of art Mot hes not Wee itioeated dams of
wags before. Ammon Ma, who mealy lo them few, of
0 Aires, Ceti Oilleat 10 übtalo the lot place. 01 merit, bat
Mat does out 411.1041 Ines the admetages thm may be
derived by ail by soquineg • correct eye, wheli gild be
0f,.. to Llama la fee.. ealk of MO. ILI it le true that no
000 OM form dem MI.. 1.1 1311 Owl, 101.1 Spoil any subject
until he tem deputed tn. • t •apromitin them accurately in
Itti4llo4e, 11 10 ,qUally arr. hat 000 el Cua 14110 I. .a motrate
nottoo thit Mime be I/4.1 world WWI be hat .0(0 rol
the powat of drawing hem corr..M.y. Must Mena O,W eaten
go la rely Into ail the operation. of DC1033011, slues& cm, sod
We ores., that a V 1441 fled I. opine for many wbo arg not tu
the gni lank at artiste. dater b.• .clite than potation and
*colonise commend the germ., of enadeon of Art. Th. art
of •a4tairin,, 11 11 0.41, II dition ou. ; certualy my 011113 Sr
pene:tee limn meto kuogr that ',cc...grainy has aillaiee attaiaer
the perfection that it ought to Imre done, and 0.1104 the
kini I. beater *ad more ciumply •socuted the I lo this
oeustry. I bolts., 0 I It or useful Odd of labeur could he
.11111.4 upon than the endeavour to prom good sod cheap
illu.trailoos of ocieutflc •ork4 I grul toot go out of my
prordioe by thiltal 4114 b•db Art, but, coodnion mond mid t
Ll* work of Mu tau... 1 002 4 gloating to einposa se the Ores
gulch Kr. Walter has lot •n 1311 pelllfee ou Art upou the
importance of a heroin to grunt of repremaniteon. U absolute
troth it ag unidtatnaboi li. Art 05 1$ le lu most other thews,
cartaiply LIMY isur.lailly Mire hewn lot a tri• biluaall abed
I• no the desire to attain 11. Th etjlm 0. 10. grst matters,
which WI .11111113610 I 31,4 r only/misty, are often the riven*
of *drawable when they are servilely copliel by others, and
may • promoting ettedeat hat bad he bruepocte tappel in th•
bud by fallen( late mann. tun before be ma assuired the
Ar, of deeming f oublu•ly the Ira. of Nature. bur can he
Os sore that 10 017 410. nowrom, prescribed bar beauty have
any hotter mattonty I* thval than the guctuming fashioa
of dm tane or the knee of amochumo. Whim we retest, for
lo.tanco, how our Idea, of female beauty mlnlat have
differed, and that, actendlog no so might holstein to hare been
born -• near a 011116.01.11. of • B 44,01,14- Or. Moult bar.
• ironed . a oan too 1.4 to in it., • cripple too lame to
trek, or • Ims the lower op •A which te tercel out two
inert • b quail the no. b, allot to the shape of • tart
enrol, when 40 .40 cl.ineted • 'eon of WM' WWII 100. 41.'
dmrin totemselves tt the 10,1 good .14 .14 Maims/. dyeing
their ha r to ...ere 1011 1110 1.1.11,1110411 WILY Lb. 0.101.11 a
their oh it, palate in tit In in ea like • clown M Astny'a, 01
e waddling thetoselni r 0 est the lege like • bomb tio, all in
toe came of Musty. Wiaa t we 0 alsrler 10.4 $. ousittial• and
dean...num M. falai mg Which are thought beituleful SO
WOO tll3lO ox. 31114 10 41 appear blthvall to US et sa .ther It 4411,
80104 by the force of amoebae., i, tiny ore not be pinioned
lu our goset,l•ll2 it we sak if al. them thing. are beautiful,
.04 11 th truth to IVA bambini. what le beauty? imt e.ery
man balite It according to Ms own las.

Toe Hoe. Summar moved the addition of Mr. H.
%fouls and Mr. A. &won as members of the nom-
mitts*. It we very nec:seary tee, should have Mr.
Sionle's no operation, seeing how mach they were
under his wing. Sir. Homo was formerly on Me oom-
mitt«, and hal beeis for many years a steady
oupporter of the school, and he believed it was only
.1 ammo' of au acci lent that his name was omitted
from the present conmott ie.
Tne motion w seconded oy Mr. A. H. LOCI, and
curried unanimously.
Mr. Mouut expresso.' lois Clanks for the kind way
he hat ben pr,does I and seam let. U. could only
assure them he would do his little beet to co-opeate
situ hie coassignee on toe a isnosttee in advancing the
lidereete of the School of Art. (Applause)
The Rev. T. W. Komi prop end in his own name
and in the name of all present a In of thank& to
General Pitt Rivera for having corns to Dorchester in
thia unser. meta. weather (at any rate inclement, if
not unseaeunable weather) to give them the interesting
lecture he had put h•lere them. (Applause.) He
hoped if the pecuniary soccer, of that meeting Mould
not be as complete as the sanguine wishes of some of
throe preen seemed to imply, LW they knew there
was no coliseums there, still ultimately the enthusiasm
awakened by that meeting would lead to supplying
the deficiency in their funds. kte did not see why
institutions of this kind should not be crowned with
'goatee where they were diligently punned. They
were apt to think, not nit %ether in national vanity,
whet Sagliehmeo were determined to seamed they
generally did moose I ; sod if this was true of Eaglishs
men, it was also true of E iglishwomm—if they were
determined to carry a thing out they generally
moosedsd in doing so. It wad peculiarly appropriate
of institutions of this kind that the dowse were largely
made up of the geode sex, ant Mr. Baker sail at
the institution the lady stu lents were nearly four to
one It was • greet thing 1, have a good hops for the
future, and if that meetleg were male op outtria:f.
gentlemen inatoad of a very large admixture of
which they were glad 1, se*. he should he inclined to
quote two Latin Imes, which perhaps, to Me frt. ss
, around him, savoured very strongly of the Eton Lein
Grammar, which said something _about the mollifying
tarots ot the piste seems& He hoped with all hie
heart this slot w.,u1,1 follow, aid follow in pant., a
c septum°. of the lentare which Geeing Pitt-Riese
had set before them. Hs began by (Ureteral/id two
great claims to hie knowledge of art, but it was
evident he clamed among the beets aria the very great
and important art of priviahr an lot treeing lecture, earl
be had eminently suooseded. The rev. gentleman then
briefly touched on several points which had awakened
his interest, and orte of particular local 'stereos, whisk
we may mention. Gassed Pitt-Rivers, Mr.
Kulp* said, spoke of the architecture of their more
ftorth.ru climates, and the neesesity of • different
@Vie of roof from that which previaed in Southern
Italy and other southern countries. the height of the
roof lessening as they got nearer the regions of the sun.
Thit wan very natural ; it was • practical 000 sequence
of the chimes of climate that ass should find
this difference. But ben came in the valise of the
real eye for art and beauty, and which of them did
not know how much of the beauty of their own
northern Citlee came from thee lofty roofs which
they found in the mediaeval architoetne of Reigiam,
and indeed of their own country. There was nothing
more beautiful in 411114 of their old towns than the
no .fs, and while he we, sp 'eking of thls—speaking
in this picturesque old tosro..f ii ...Mester—he would
say to hi• friend, and n•ighbours—take care of your
roofs. He did not say this to flatter his own feelings
or the feelings of those reeident among them, but he
might say Dorchester clans I vary well amongst Um
most pleureeque towns of England. Beware of bine
slate, for nothing could tend so much to raider's* any
t iwn. or mend out the beauty of the old medlars'
town, solmuch at this; and if anything could intensify
the ugliness of that ugly material. It we that
tendenoy to flatten the roofs, which did not become
our northern clime, or meet any of those oonditioni of
beauty which were admired in any of our older
buildings. After further remark, on the lecture, the
rev. gentleman proceed with all eincerity a vote of
thanks to General Pitt-Rivers for so kin fly coming
amongst them sad giving encourerement td the
School of Art, which he hoped would be for the good
of the presout generation and the future generations
of our good old town. (Applause.)
In woondiag the motion, the Rev. H. Hosarrr said
bill would at one. relieve their minds of any
for be was not going to make any speech upon art.
He heard • lady say the other day " The worst of the
annual meeting of the School of Art we so many men
thought it necessary t o make speeches about art, of
which they knew no more than the illustrious gentle-
mast in the moon." (Laughter.) Having &eared
them, however, thin did not apply to the admirable
eddreee given them by their worthy chairman he
proceeded to mike a few matter-of-fact remarks shout
the echo ,I. They bed been in very low water Jodie',
but he thought tha prospects of the school at the
present moment were azosiedlngly encouraging.
During tha past year a large amount of mosey had
been spent in the new room, and. with regard to the
new furniture, a large am ono of the mosey laid out
had bees paid cif. During the pee year or
eighteen months they had been, be might say, simply
palled oat of the fire, and if it had not been I or the
energy of their present committee, the school
must undoubtedly have collapsed. They had a very
stroog hint from Soith Kennington that the
school would be wiped out If something could not be
dons. Tbe most encouraging feature now was they
had • committee now who were really In earnest, who
not only hoped and United the school would mooed
in the future and that it would improve, hot
were perfectly determined that it should succeed;
therefore he had no doubt about it the school would
now succeed. (Applause.) With regard to the number
of students, the afternoon clam was very satisfactory
in lied, for he believed the number of students was
much larger than ever before. The evening clam, of
I 00W1111, was the oee they were very anxious to see
Inumeed, beoaue, se they knew, the evening class was
' really set apart for art's sus, and, there( me, that wan
the clam they were anxidus they should get more
students' to j in. The number of students who
&Vended the evening clews were not more than 22 or
23, whims In a town of this sort they ought 11 have
' something like 50 or 60. Ths report of the committee
dwelt very strongly upon the bonsai of industrial art,
and he hoped and trusted they would now they were
In thee premises greatly improve. The school had
been in great diflloaltlea hitherto, and the ad modem,
though the magistrates were Wait 'sough to load them

to been fer nothing, were not at all fitted for tits work,
land mauy pa 0411:14 there were diacionraged
and left. lie sincerely hoped now they had every-
thing they wanted—au eiosllei.t building and every
every sort of furoiture—there would he a lards
•Iditlon di the evening claim., bytouse after all
' the main object of the Geverament in givlor them
• grant wee t encourage industrial art ; and If
they o cold only get their young ratio, and be thought,
alio many oft is young women of the town, mow of
Lb. young worn 'a employed in the shops, to come here
and b toidht industrial art they woul I be d iing •
go ,d thing, If the hor, carp inters, blackemi she, an I
toadeenten of all each 'meld only come thtoe aul be
taurht real d,dustrial art it would be an isnoiessoi
advantage to th -ro- With redard ti other oatioi.e, it
was quite OtarVallotta tlio amount of money ecspol
..n I Me won Waal way in which the cc lo Is we e
~opporti I. He was roe ling the other lay th.t teas
of tbousan ls of women in Paris at the present moment
were serried their living entirely by in Inns-lel art;
and he was dla I inlay young ladles In this town were
• irulag their living entirely from the Instruction they
bad reoelvea from their friend Mr. Baker, in this
Dorchester &shoot of Art. And be yes gait. oartasa
'hen won many others, if they would o_iny come here,
would find tameless benefit from It. With regard to
the Ogletree la Oa room (after mentioning that it
hal been arranged they should remain for in.pection
till baturday), ths Rector remarked some of them were
very pleasing, and he particularly referred to one
picture of Woe wiring cheese, • loaf of bread, as) a
bottle of beer, which he thought was a very ssoellent
one; whether it was the bed in the roon be wee not
Gott:shot Judge to gay, but he not cal the I bet we
represented, and on that label it was mentioned it
was twitted by • 11,m:seater tradiesin an. (Laughter.)
Now he did hops and trust when that Dorchester
tredennao cams and ...r t at • Imirable •dvartisement
t.htt..had given him, he guild put hie baud in his
and help them c ear of toeir debt. (Laughter.)
11747•1 of the local prisei which they lied formerly
offered for o they were this year only able
to give oertilleenes. Of course tosy all knew perfectly
welt prism were an eacellent thing, and a very gre-t
sac 'wade:Dent t sin Mott, but tie simple truth was
they were not 111 a position to give prix is. 'rho prise.
bed always bees given from quit •asparate fu,id from
their analtal subeoriptions, and they felt that all they
tied been csenviamiog the t,,0L1 ant begging the peool.
to come forward to help thew, they really h id not toe
Line t ego and oak their kind (needs to give shim dip
duag for prase, tat. Feet. ant next year they intended
sii•ko • .trenuena eft I, give some really good
prism. la °Antiunion, r. Rverett en lif the Dor-
*heeler. tohool of Art had done nothing glee during the
last twelve months thee ...Wag lie win to work to get
each • chairman as they had got that night to come
down and give them each a valuable isotrue a• he had
dose, they would have been exceedingly useful, and
as there were reprassatetives of the Weal Prow
=• he expressed the hops Unit the address which
al Pitt.n.ivers had Imo so kind to give them,
would be very widely publiiihed and very widely read.
He begged most heartily to woad &Ir. Knipi's pro-
position, and he was sure they would all of Ile.
accord • very hearty vote of thank. to General Pit:-
Rivers for his kiudams In naming hors. (Appian...)
In reply, toe CioAnutos said the D autumn* Solhool
of Art bids fen to t.ke • very trued place ansouget the
schools of art of the country. He hoped it wouid
fail from any deficiency of fund., for it memed en very
•rident it small at thoro idbly tail from nay !ark of
ability or Inuir•Si lu this Obi at. (Appiattait.)
The meeting then terminated.