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subordinate forms to balance and the back ground being cut 
into areas agreeable in variety and form. The design by Mr. 
Fry also illustrates the center as principal and border as sub- 
ordinate but in an entirely different style. This design would 
be especially suitable to a book cover. It is very clever, 
original and pleasing, somewhat on the order of what is called 
l'art nouveau or modern art. 
The fifth lesson was an innovation to china decorators, but 
it was not long before its application to Keramics became 
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clearly understood and almost more interest was taken in this 
than in any other problem. 
Mr. Dow drew a landscape in outline, the elements being 
foreground, middle distance and sky, a principal and subordin- 
ate groups of trees. These elements the class combined in 
various ways using two or three tones, the object being to 
obtain subordination of masses and dark and light, also 
beauty of outline. 
We illustrate here six landscapes, two each by Mr. Fry, 
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Miss Mason and Mrs. Robineau, which Mr. Dow himself se- 
lected as best illustrating the point. Mr. Dow called atten- 
tion particularly to the outline of the trees against the sky, 
there being a great difference between a common place out- 
line and one full of suggestion of individuality. The use of 
Japanese paper gives a rather shaded effect in the reproduc- 
tion but the tones were flat in the originals. 
The sixth and last problem was the making of repeating 
borders in three tones and in color, some to have a naturalistic 
motif and some abstract. No especially good designs were 
shown with abstract motif, but we reproduce four of the 
best designs from naturalistic motifs. The border of orange 
buds and leaves by Mr. Fry was in purplish brown on a cream 
ground but the tones would not reproduce, so the design is 
shown in black and white, which does not do it justice. Mr. 
Dow considered this interesting and good in dark and light, 
and the well spaced border in fine proportion to the larger area. 
The border of Roses in which the naturalistic flower is used 
in a conventional way shows a good feeling for spacing. 
It is interesting to contrast the different ways of seeing 
the same subject, as shown in the two rose borders of Miss 
Mason and Mr. Fry, and to reflect that if a dozen more artists 
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used the same motif there would be still a dozen more ways 
of seeing the same subject. Mr. Dow considered both borders 
by Miss Mason to be beautiful in drawing and in the arrange- 
ment of tones. In the last lecture, Mr. Dow dwelt at length 
upon some pieces of Corean pottery by Kenzan, the Japanese 
designer, all roughly modeled irregular little bits, sometimes 
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