THE DEPARTMENT OF ART AND SCIENCE.
An official circular has been issued to all masters of schools in con- nexion with this department, calling for their opinion—" 1. As to the ex- tent to which they consider drawing can be taught to a child in one hour a week, or, considering vacations, &c., about forty hours a year ; 2. The process in detail by which such instruction can be given ; 3. The charac- ter of the examples to be used, and some definition of the stages in which they should be used." It may be said that these are exactly the points on which the Department should give its opinion to the masters. Still it is well to be deliberate; and the authorities must be the best Wale to know their own ignorance, if it exists. Of course on receiving the
opinions," it will be for them to decide which it chaff and which grain.
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