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people are often without furniture, and pay extravagant prices for 
the flimsy, worthless, ugly, glued-together, and varnished trash of 
the factories. Now there is a type and style of very elegant solid 
furniture, such as was made in South Germany for centuries, 
which would cost no more than the glued and veneered trash. It 
is made by simply sawing, boring, and pinning or bolting planks 
or boards together. Any man of ordinary intelligence, having the 
design for a table or chair of this kind before him, can take the 
measurements and make it. 
"Industrial art is rapidly becoming in education and in life 
as essential as reading or writing. There are millions of people in 
America whose homes, on which much money has been spent, are 
not really creditable, good-looking, nor comfortable. They would 
all have tasteful or artistic and cheap adornment if they could 
get it. 
" The best characteristic is the impression of individual character. 
This disappears in the machine ; in fact, the more perfect machine- 
work is the less is it artistic. The faultlessly-finished piece of 
silver-work, such as no mere smith could ever rival, shows indeed 
the result of ingenuity, but not of art. A Soudan bracelet, made 
with a stone and nail, is far more artistic than a Connecticut mill- 
manufactured dollar bangle, yet the latter is infinitely the more 
' finished 9 of the two. 
" I am sure that Industrial Art introduced into elementary 
education will go far to make children love school. In England 
rural clergymen and their wives soon saw into this ; and Mrs. Jebb, 
of Ellesmere, was the first to establish village art schools." 
What Mr. Leland writes on this subject is entitled to every 
consideration. He has put to the proof his system of training 
the young in industrial art. The authorities in Philadelphia 
afforded him every facility in the public schools, and he achieved 
complete success. The Bureau of Education of the United 
States usually issue about 14,000 of the Circulars of Information. 
Of No. 4 (1882) — Mr. Leland's quoted above — they issued and 
distributed 60,000, with the result that drawing and its application 
to art industry has been introduced into hundreds of schools. 
Specimens of work from various classes were shown. Leather 
decoration and pottery from Kirkby Lonsdale ; pottery from 
Chalfont and Castle Headingham ; brasswork from Keswick ; 
carved wood from Ellesmere and Yattenden ; linen — spun, woven, 
