TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
met in this country. The opening up of village industries arrests 
the flow of rural labour into the already overcrowded towns 
and cities. The trained artizan may follow his calling amid 
healthy surroundings, and vary his work in his garden allotment. 
Increased labour thus comes to the land, and the production 
of home-grown feeding stuffs is increased. 
Government aid has secured the allotment, but should be 
further avoided as far as possible. The need alone remains that 
the work of the Home Art Association should be supplemented 
by organized work set forth by business men; care must be 
taken that the capabilities of localities are duly considered, 
then a wide field opens for the profitable employment of capital 
as well as of labour. 
The distribution in English country places of money now 
paid out of the country for what can quite as well be produced 
in the country, in itself creates additional work and employ- 
ment. 
The two hundred or more classes of the Home Art Association 
show not only the aptitude of English lads for the art work 
attempted, but the readiness, nay eagerness, with which they 
take it up. 
Mr. Charles G. Leland, of Philadelphia, in the Circular of 
Information issued by the United States Government (No. 4), 
says, ' ' The system on which this industrial art work should 
be taught is, the learning how to design the patterns, and then 
working them out in any material, such as wood, clay, brass, 
embroidery stuffs, &c. There are fifty or a hundred such minor 
arts, and any body who can draw or design can, with very little 
practice, in a few days execute them fairly in any substance 
which will retain impressions. It is a remarkable law of nature 
or of humanity, that all the minor arts, or such branches of 
industry as are allied to ornament, are very easy, and can 
generally be so far mastered in a day, by anybody who can 
draw, as to enable the pupil to produce a perfectly encouraging 
result. 
"What is wanted is simply large sheets in the large outline 
designs of different kinds of art industry work. Let me illustrate 
this by a single instance. In many parts of America boards even 
of oak, walnut, or more valuable woods are cheap enough, and 
men who can manage saws and planes are not wanting. These 
