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THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART.
The annual exhibition of this Government Department has opened at Gore House. The contributions consist of the elementary studies sent up from forty-five schools in various parts of the Three Kingdoms ; be- ginning with linear geometry, and so on, through ornament outlined from the fiat, drawing from models and objects, ornament shaded from the flat and from the round, models and objects shaded from solid forms, draw- ing-the human figure from flat examples, flowers and foliage from the same, the figure fromcasts, and from nature, and flowers from nature, to the painting of ornament from flat examples and from casts, and finally of flowers from the flat. It does not strike us, as far as memory serves for the comparison, that the display excels that of last year; but it is, its then one of very respectable promise. Two studies of the same living model, from Manchester, are among the most satisfactory— not only relatively, considering the arduousness of the task, but posi- tively ; such is the value of a real thing to work from. The Laocoiin and the Discobolus are two of the most frequently drawn Statues; and Miss T. jewsbury's study of the latter is a oreditable work. The orna- ment shaded from the fiat affords several commendable specimens. Some of the productions are for the competition for a prize-studentship.: in this section, those of Mr. James Hadley, from the Worcester School, include two casts—that of foliage, treated naturally, though not in a manner unsuited for leading to decoration, more particularly a good one. We understand that upwards of five hundred additional drawings have been excluded simply from want of room. Four silver medals, which were awarded this year, have been carried off by students at Manchester, Birmingham, Macclesfield, and the Metropolitan Female SchooL
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