The New York herald., 1874-12-08

hoped that the system may be introauced without
sangulne anticipsons as 70 ITS success and ITS ul
innate Woe ereachipg effects.
the school, 0. Design Itself 10 wen supplied with
teachers and with materials for ART study and
quite number OF IT'S graduates are now employed
successfully as designers IN various branches OF
indusuy, WINE muca larger proportion nave de-
voted themselves TO teaching IN private schools
The divisions OF ornamental design 0. land scape
OF well KNOWN artists. and thorough instruction Is
also given 10 drawing on wood. In
Mr. sna spOsd Ihs
80 the procuring OF materials ior art study.
resulting r 10 gallery o. over 800 casts rom ,hs
SIZE; considerable number OF plaster casts as
examples OF different schools OF ornament,
Gothic, ana OF the Renaissance. There is a care
fully chosen library o. over one hundred volumes.
And the catalogue OF paintings. prints and draw
us not attempted, since they number by thou
sands" Certainly. with system OF teaching IN
tended 10 stimulate and AWAKEN whatever degree
OF individual talent each one may possess, the pu-
pills OF TINS scnco! should 20 forth thoroughly pre-
dirhculty IN It's way, hitherto, is the want OF a
special endowment enabling it 10 receive Tree pu-
pills. since many OF those who might most advan-
tagconsly receive It's instructions are unable to
support themselves during the time demanded
Moderate fee or ah pay son even tne
five months, which Is necessary 10 MAINTAIN the
scnoo!. The Tree pupils so lar admitted have been
supported oy the generosity OF the directors and
their friends. Ii might be well for some wealthy
individual to secure to himself lasting gratitude
and name by so endowing the school as to
make II the place where such as the pubic school
system OF drawing may prove 10 oe possessed OF
any desired special branch or art study to a thor
ough mastery OF the same.
For proficiency IN tue arts OF Industrial design,
and supply OF skilled artisans who may enable
our manufactures to compete IN even the rnest
branches Of work. with those OF France, OF Vienna
and OF the Crlents by no means the only advantage
TO be attained by the Introduction or art teaching
into the public schools. Even the cognate Denedt
oi pubic, trained to appreciate and 10 demand
beauty In even the commonest and cheapest arti-
cles OF household furniture, OF workmen ana work.
women, educated to a keen. Intelligent perception
OF grace and harmony and OF The means by which
they may be secured without the aid OF costly ma
teria-even this IS not the only added cause winch
commends sucn teaching. IL must lead IN not d
cases 10 the deve opment OF dn artistic faculty
which would otherwise. perorce, have renamed
dormant, or have awakened only to torment its
possessor with longing Impossible to realize for
It's cutivatlon-the vision or an local after whicn
IL was IN vain even to strive. the giIt OF a thor
ough elementary training In art Will besrow on
many man and woman the love and the aptitude
Tor pursuit outside OF the daily domain or task
work, whether OF brain or hand, which VIII. enno-
BILE and beauty their own daily lives and serve as
lncentiye and stimulus to others. Raphaeis
but in sucn results as are now IN my
memory-two blrs OF work differing widely
holder as among the things Of beauty tnat are q
JOY ioreTer-we shall surely be the richer. Que OF
them was the leisure hour employment OF a mer-
chant, now dead-a member OF the society which
gave Benjamin West TO our earlier generation OF
arttstS-and consists OF three thick volumes, con-
tanning raintnxs. lie size. OF every humming bird
IN North and south America. On tine page oppo-
site 10 each specimen Is beautifully printed PEN
nabiis In every case where il was possible e he
had procured MS own specimens for painting.
taking cose and careful observation OF the bird
while stl in life. Unable TO visit the tropics
him ef MS South American specimens were pro-
cured Tor MIN by more fortunate friend VINO
sympathlzed IN MS tastes and studies. One secret
or color, whereby the gold, Wherever used In his
paintings, IS preserved IN unnimmed briancy.
OF work to which | nave alluded was done BY a
lady who had taken the veti, bat who still used
1er brush for the benefit o. her and Is
admirers, who selected the subject-one OF his
iavorlte 6allads-to be emblematlcally illustrated
by nowers. ! have heard one OF our Oldest and
best known artists pronounce 1t the finest water
color painting ne mad. ever seen IL has been
no two pages alike the blossoms on each
o r. the preyaag SEN
done in water color; some Of the capital letters,
the way OF graceful and delicate design; and
words and lowers on every page are Blended into
of the whole a VISION OF delight TO be incnaceaby
remembered. The training which brings percep-
of nare ana when enabes some Of those
see to reproduce II IN sucn manner, Is worth far
more than the routine cramming OF many text
books OF little in the business or the pleasures
OF after li!e ana forgotten almost as soon as the
pupil is set Tree from the school room.
There IS yet another field Of study IN which we
Of the Quaker City natter ourselves that onr
schools are likely to take the lead, and that sim
gularlg enough, Is music. We pretended to have
II taught, IN desutory fashion, Tor years. Then
we put IN Superintendent OF Music, elected. un-
fortunately, through political father than artistic
influence whose system, or want OF system. was
y burden to the teachers aud waste OF time for
the children. But as our gOOd genius would have
1t, the Girls Normal and High School, whcn
chiefly supplies our public schools with teachers,
was excepted from the system and placed under
the care o. a gentleman who has peen .or years
making scientific study OF the voice, and whose
success IN training-ln some instances in ap-
parentiy creating-volces, giving perfect scale
from the lowest to the highest range OF each
voice, with equal purity OF tone on each
and every vowel, Is fast making him famous. The
rapid influx o private pupils, 1t was eared, would
cause Professor Everest to give up his normal
school classes; but l am glad TO learn that the
interest OF the young ladies' in his lessons and In
his method OF teaching which ne luiy explains 10
them, and his own intense desire tor the advance
meni and diffus0n OF vocal culture. have decided
him to retain these classes until the future teacn-
crs are competent TO carry out the system. The
Professor has begun publishing IN one OF our Phil
adelphia papers series OF letters the voice, OF
which the opening ones are gaming the commen-
daton OF some OF our best physicians. II his sys-
TEN Is carried out we shall, some OF these bright
days, challenge Boston to look to ner laurels as
the musical city oi the Union.