THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART.
We have received from the Department of Science and Art circulars showing the progress of the movement for indoctrinating the country with the elementary principles of drawing by diffusion and simplification of the means of instruction. It has been the object of the Department, since its reorganization, "to encourage the multiplication of common drawing-schools, and to confine the schools of design to a few districts, in which the application of art rnay be studied with advantage by persons already instructed in the rudiments of delineation. . . . . The object pro- posed is to obtain a supply of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, who, in addition to the ordinary attainments, may be able to teach drawing with efficiency to the extent of" the following course,-drawing free- hand from flat examples, linear geometry by means of instruments, linear perspective by aid of instruments applied to plane geometrical figures and geometrical solids, free-hand drawing and shading from solid models, and drawing and shading from natural forms and objects. "The minimum fee for attendance in a drawing-school is 6d. per week." The papers before us, which consist of a circular addressed by Mr. Lingen, of the Education Committee Office, to the Inspectors of Schools, and of a notice issued by the Department of Science and Art, hold forth induce- ments, by way of prizes, diminished fees, &c., "to pupil-teachers under apprenticeship, and masters and mistresses of schools under the inspec- tion of the Committee of Council, to qualify themselves for teaching ele- mentary drawing in schools, concurrently with writing."
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