New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-27
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER a. 1859.

server To learn the laws of beauty which !. the ssn.
thing ~ learning the laws Of the highest delight GER
tain portion Of intellectual philosophy IL involved AMI
tie teacher who Is t. guide the minds that 1e
the pencils OF young deigners must have this incl &c
iusl philosophy, and be able 70 inpsrt IL The pab
hhed works OF AllstOn well ss the older works Of
Raph1el Neng,, Sir Joshua Reynois and other II Vs.
tiers OF h clearly prove thet the ideas Of artistic genius
may take even metaphysical form and that when they
do they make the artist adequate teacher Of oher
conscious knowledge Of the theory and principles Of
art IL undergraduates good teacher and This il the
point 10 which would come
Your School Of Design in danger Of failing from what
must call the PcnRy rdon Of not calling to its head
adequate teacher feel more free say this, because
ne pecabie young lady 70 whom Il has been o1eret
cocs heTsen fee her adeouGcy and frankly told the
DrectoTs that she ia not capable Of doing than
goidns the pupils through the Peteozzar system The
PetalozZan system is al best only good for infant learn
crs whose highest application Of the Art Of drawing "a TO
re OF machinery, furniture and other mechanical forms
It's manipulation Is positive drawback upon the power
to create beauty Ii the fathers OF the city would in
roduoe into the lower forms OF the public school in
structCn IT would I've an Improvement there because
nothing OF higher character is compatible with the cir
cumtsnces Of the But il is truly ptiiu 70 mako II
discipline for young women supposed to have some
capacity for thought and some feeling for beauty The
experiment was tried in Boston and has failed for the
original school has passed under different AMI better
training since, though that school still suffers from want
of adequate teacher IL il not necessary that the
head Of school of dcgn should have oriZinality OF
genius herself for originally in something which cannot
be taught and if herself very rich in this endowment
she could hardly be the best for training others even
dsnterested enough 70 give up the opportunities oil
making much more money by designing herself But the
teacher should have taste and knowledge and be critic
thought an 0skeie critic certainly interpreting TO her
pupils the delight they experience IN works OF art ana
nature because capable Of the sources OF their
enjoyment,
fered and she Ire. refused but the grounds Of her
fuso were simply tina, not sufficient salary was offered
% enable her TO do utce 10 the position And this
what | mean by the penny wisdom" There Is no
way in which the s1sney can be better emplJyed than
in securing the right sort Of mind to be At the head OF
the thing Let the Directors be economical IN every
particular rather than in ths In the end unless this
secured the whole thing will fail and thus 1t will prove
the worst economy. The school, II IL what ought 10
be- viii soon support tsef 1t is only in ts infancy be-
fore the manufacturers that they can obtain
here good designs they pay large sums for across
the water. that II n to be a subscription matter lac
intelligent gentleman through whose spirited exertions
the school in Boston set foot did not ask the
great manufacturers there to subscribe money 10 9ire
poor rOrsa employment but to make for themselvosa
for their manufactures; and thus addressed
the shrcd merchants ofthe Yankee City Embossed their
lust made for $4,000 to build up their School of Design
has been already answered in the of week
by $1,000 although az ye. no one has made personal
application II Is not to be doubted that in that city OF
manufactures interest quite much ne benevoence has
prompted this Morality.
Let the subject be viewed then IN THIS light mercy
and there is no doubt that the merchant pnces OF Ne"
Work will see 10 that the School of ID al for Wo-
men, do not fail Of beginning in the right way through
want of funds There is many man there "ho wouid
be able without feeling It, TO guarantee the S!Ooo re-
ired Inv the lady in question for year or two. should
lie realize hnf then the school would in all probability
be made able 10 earn $1,000 in every year aerward
This salary is no unreasonable demand Permit me 10
sey word about this lady who as you know Mr.. Eli
tor il no sister child, cousin OF III ne, ana IN wnoin
have no particle Of interest except OF that general
character inspired by her fitness 10 ful the duties oil
teacher in art 10 my countrywomen. More thantweny
wears ago she the City OF Boston, and opened
school which, for The short time she kept il, bad the
highest succefs;-by which mean-wosac accepted az the
hest instruction ever offered in Boston. She abandoned
tbis ,uccesfiu teaching devote hcrsefOr time 10
oil painting which she taught well as pencil, and cray
on drawing and a very rich style OF water colorng.
For the last twenty years she has aternated teaching
whenever she could obtain scholars who willing to
90 through the discipline which she required OF all her
pupl.-with study and practice OF her own and these
tudies have been exactly those wmch al" relu1t io
training a teacher Within year or two she mas
given parior lectures the theory and princi'
pies Of art to many as twenty different
classes of ladies' her object being to difGe knowcige
of the science of beauty, beyond the sphere o. those
who practice sn TO the end that the patrons oil arr might
be able TO discern better the comparative merits Of what
is offered them, and parents might know how TO u1se
of the instruction given TO their children But these
lectures were also found most valuable to those practi
cay engaged in art BY means Of diagrams and models,
casts and cngravngs of pieces she developed to
the senses az well TO the mind the principles OF har
ony and expression In clear obscure in colors in lines
IN forms But these models expensive and to
extent pclshable In ischarg her duties M head
of the school Of design, this heoric teaching
company direct and nspirit the practice of the hand
The means of illustration must be enlarged some ex
pensye books obtained and art journals taken by which
she may be enabled to keep along with the progress
the day arduous Office there cannot be than Ia
be the head Of great school Of design Shes perfectly
right in demanding salary which shall enable her 70
keep herself provided with all that is necessary. Let
be gwen and all the energy OF strong, high prncpled
woman, impassioned with love Of art, will be en-
gagged 10 forward the object; and School Of Design
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metropolitan City. EPP