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technical, the author has written a book 

 which is so admirable in style that it presents 

 strong claims to public attention, viewed 

 solely from a literary standpoint. . . . The 

 author's experience of thirty-five years in a 

 bank did not convert him into a machine, 

 nor make him unmindful of everything ex- 

 cept money-getting. Out of banking hours 

 he must have read many good books, and 

 thought carefully over their contents. We 

 find everywhere signs of his keen knowledge 

 of human nature. He recognizes and demon- 

 strates the fact that successful bankers must 

 have some, at least, of the cardinal virtues ; 

 that they must be courteous, honorable, 

 prudent, and industrious." 



Industrial and High Art Education in 

 the United States. By I. Edwards 

 Clarke. Washington : Government 

 Printing-Office. Pp. 1100. 



This volume is part of a report on the 

 subject described in the title made by the 

 author to the United States Commissioner 

 of Education. The report complete will in- 

 clude four volumes. The particular branch 

 of the subject here discussed is M Drawing 

 in Public Schools." The object sought in 

 the preparation of the report, as stated by 

 the author, has been to place in the hands 

 of educators and educational officers " the 

 material not only for forming an intelligent 

 judgment upon the advisability of intro- 

 ducing the study of drawing into the public 

 schools, but also, as well, to furnish the 

 facts needed for a like consideration of the 

 questions arising in regard to establishing 

 special schools of technical industrial art 

 training, high art academies, public art muse- 

 ums, art libraries, and of making occasional 

 public loan exhibitions." The volume is in 

 two parts ; the report and the appendices, 

 besides an introductory chapter. The re- 

 port also is in two parts. The first part 

 consists of fourteen " original preliminary 

 papers," occupying 258 pages, " suggesting 

 the direct and indirect relations of art to 

 education, to industry, and to national pros- 

 perity," which are grouped under the gen- 

 eral heading of " The Democracy of Art." 

 In the second part, of 411 pages, the sub- 

 ject is considered, historically, with respect 

 to England and America (particularly Mas- 

 sachusetts), to the present position of draw- 

 ing in several States of the Union, and to 



concurrent contemporary testimony concern- 

 ing drawing in the public schools. The ap- 

 pendices contain papers relating to early 

 efforts to introduce drawing as a branch of 

 popular education, in the United States and 

 in England ; to the origin, development, and 

 purpose of industrial art education ; to the 

 management of the Massachusetts State 

 Normal Art School ; to the Industrial Art- 

 training Exhibits in the Centennial Exhibi- 

 tion ; to Governmental Aid to Education in 

 the Industrial and Fine Arts in Great Brit- 

 ain ; to Industrial Education ; and to the In- 

 ternational Conference on Education, held 

 in London, in August, 1884. The prepara- 

 tion of the report was begun in 1877, or of 

 a part of it, as indicated in one of the state- 

 ments, as far back as 1874. The work has 

 since been added to several times, but not, 

 apparently, revised ; in fact, the author ac- 

 knowledges that he considered the task of 

 rewriting it a hopeless one, and adopted in 

 preference, as a more feasible plan, " in 

 adding the new matter to leave the his- 

 tory as previously completed, and under the 

 head of ' addenda ' to proceed with the sub- 

 sequent statements." In several instances 

 the " addenda " are far longer than the his- 

 tory to which they are attached. Thus, the 

 report has come to answer, with unusual ac- 

 curacy, to the author's own description of it 

 as resembling " one of those vast, rambling, 

 mediaeval structures to which succeeding 

 ages have builded additions as the needs or 

 tastes of new generations impelled." It 

 contains a great deal of valuable matter, 

 that could have been put, in vastly better 

 shape, in a fraction of the space the present 

 volume occupies. Then we should have 

 had a compact, manageable book, written 

 to the point, which publishers would have 

 competed for the privilege of putting on, the 

 market. As it is, it is a striking re-enforce- 

 ment of our argument against the Govern- 

 ment going into the publishing business. 



Annual Report op the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station for 1885. 

 Middletown. Pp. 139. 



The analysis of commercial fertilizers 

 and work connected with the collection, ex- 

 amination, and valuation of samples have 

 occupied the larger part of the time of the 

 station's working force. One hundred and 

 thirty-nine brands of fertilizers were legally 



