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some delightful old fane or old-world village for sketching. It may 

 be imagined not much time was left for barracking at football or 

 tennis, nor do I remember that we felt very acutely the loss of 

 these privileges. 



I only know generally as to the character of the work and teach- 

 ing of the State technical schools (my friend, Mr. Nangle, can well 

 enlighten you upon this), but where sound architecture is taught, 

 as I know to be the case in Sydney, I look upon training of this 

 character as a most valuable adjunct to that which a lad receives 

 in a good private office, but I, by no means, look upon it as com- 

 prising all the training necessary. The every-day, and all-round 

 work, and practical experience gained from making or avoiding 

 mistakes, of the private office is a necessary element to fit any one 

 for successful practice in which the artist and the astute business- 

 man must make a happy combination. 



Alfred Waterhouse, in one of his addresses as President of the 

 Royal Institute, speaking as to the best mode of training a youth 

 intended for the profession of architecture, says: — 



" The youth in question should have received, in his 

 school- days, some preliminary training of a scientific, as well 

 as of an artistic character. He should learn early to under- 

 stand and appreciate the beauties of a fine building — of 

 the civic and domestic edifices, the grand cathedrals and 

 churches, the noble streets and open spaces, with which many 

 a city is endowed. He should be taken to museums of ' com- 

 parative sculpture,' such as the initiative of Viollet-le-Duc, 

 created in the Trocadero; and, in default of similarly 

 arranged educational institiitions at Home, to the sculpture 

 galleries of the British and South Kensington museums. In 

 fine, he should, in his early pliable days, be shown the 

 works — or casts or drawings of the works — of the great 

 architects of various countries, and thereby acquire an in- 

 sight into the magnitude, the nobility of the career he is 

 about to enter. 



" At the same time, his ordinary education — the education 

 ■of a gentleman — should not be neglected. He must pass the 

 matriculation examination of a vmiversity, and so qualify 

 for further studies and opportunities of the institutes. 



" His next proceeding was to be articled, say, for three 

 years to some practising architect, and given every oppor- 

 tunity of qualifying himself for the object of passing the 

 ■examinations for studentship and associateship of the 

 R.I.B.A. at the conclusion of his articleship. By then, also, 

 he may have been sufficiently successful to gain a travelling 

 studentship, which would enable him to travel in France 

 or Italy, or even as far as Greece, and, on his return, he 

 ^enters an office as an assistant." 



