120 TEAR-BOOK OF FACTS. 



SCHOOL OF ART AND SCIENCE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. 



It was a leading purpose in the first foundation of the Crystal 

 Palace that its courts and collections should be a means of education 

 by the eye ; and that the treasures of art and beauty, collected and 

 stored up from every part where greatness and civilization had left 

 them, should here present a new and advanced starting-point for the 

 student. With lavish means the Directors have been enabled to 

 bring together the most complete collections of their kind in the 

 world ; and now what formerly occupied years of study, and diffi- 

 cult and costly travel, may be judged of in almost as many hours. 

 This bringing together and into series the great examples of art, 

 so that comparison may enlarge and amend our judgment, is, per- 

 haps, the greatest aim achieved by the Crystal Palace. We have 

 often pointed out the the value of the collections, and urged making 

 use of them. In the Crystal Palace has been collected such a com- 

 plete representation of the schools of antique sculpture as no academy 

 or single collection in the world can show. The same may also be 

 said of architecture ; and other arts and sciences could be particular- 

 ized. It is especially with a view to utilize all these particular ad- 

 vantages for purposes of education that the Directors hive organized 

 the School of Art, Science, and Literature ; while at the same time 

 they have borne in mind the necessity of making the system pursued 

 as complete as possible in all its branches, and capable of every 

 practical development. The Directors have also extended many 

 privileges to the pupils, such as the free admission to the Palace on 

 all days when the classes are attended ; and the purchase-right to a 

 full season-ticket, admitting to the Palace on every occasion when 

 open to the public, with some other rights, for 10s. 6(2. Profes- 

 sorships have been arranged to utilize the whole eastern range of 

 Pine Art Courts, and also the series on the western side. The mag- 

 nificent collection stored in the Industrial and Technological -Museum, 

 arranged by Dr. Price, in the galleries at the end of the central 

 transept, and described by us in some detail, may also bo par- 

 ticularized as thus available. Por the use of these and other col- 

 lections every practical facility is given. 



We quote from the Builder this merited tribute to the well-directed 

 energies of the management of the Crystal Palace. 



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MlBSBS. (Iit.i.ick and Co., of Pall Mall, bave patented an im- 

 provement in Spur-boxes, which removes the well-known pbjed 

 the spur-box hitherto in use ; and in which, in c 

 opening below, it places the spur too near the ground, renders it 

 inconvenient in walking, especially on soft ground ; while the spur 

 is liable to break, in the wearer coming down flairs, or in dan 

 the box is also liable to get filled with dirt, the bool heels are very 

 unsightly, and it is inoonvi nient to insert and take <>ut the spur. 



The Patent " Eclipse" Spur-box at once removes these Beveral 

 objections. The spur is elevated to the top of the heel, by placing 



