International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

School, carried on on South Kensington iines, and
in the Royal Scottish Academy Life School. In
1892-3 Sir Rowand Andersonandothersinterested
in the teaching of art as applied to architecture
started an appiied art schooi, which did excellent
work during its ten years' existence, but was uiti-
mateiy relinquished owing to lack of pubiic support,
and the students transferred to the Royai Institution.
A most usefui work this school started, and which
is stiii being carried on, is a survey of notable and
historic buiidings from the architectural and decora-
tive side, and a vaiuabie coiiection of drawings has
been got together which has been meantime handed
over to the custody of the Nationai Galleries Board.
The only other systematic art teaching in the city
by public bodies was that of the Heriot-Watt
CoIIege classes, which latterly have developed in
various directions, and the classes originated by the
Edinburgh Social Union.
By the estabhshment of the municipal school,
art teaching will, it is anticipated, be concentrated
under one roof. The Royal Institution School
and the Heriot-Watt classes have been formally
handed over, and on ist October the students
started their college curriculum. The new building,
however, will not be available for their use till after
the Christmas recess, and even then only the
administrative block and west wing will be ready.
Meantime the classes were continued in the Heriot-
Watt CoIIege and Royal Institution Buildings.

The College occupies a site in Lauriston, contiguous
to the beautiful Heriot Hospital School, but other-
wise surrounded by squalid and uninteresting
buildings. A substantial two-storey building is
being erected with about Hfty class rooms, studios,
and administrative offices, that should afford
opportunities for art education far in advance of
anything north of the Tweed, and in some features
superior to what is to be found in England. The
rooms have been well arranged, they are lofty and
excellently lit, and an architectural feature is the
large sculpture hall, which rises through the upper
Hat. A novel feature is a series of six studios for
graduate study.
The director of the school, Mr. F. Morley
Fletcher, has arranged a comprehensive system of
study, and the college authorities have offered
every inducement. The sessional fee, to include
all subjects, is ^6, which is the lowest of any
college in the United Kingdom, and there are
scholarships, bursaries, and free studentships.
Both day and evening classes are being held.
The school is divided into four sections—painting,
sculpture, architecture, and design. The deco-
rative arts taught will include embroidery, wood-
carving, architectural stone carving, stained glass,
book illustration, writing and illumination, leather
tooling, lithography and lithographic printing,
etching, wood-cutting, and wood-block printing;
and there is a house-painting and decoration class.
The head of the painting
section is Mr. RobertBurns,
A.R.S.A. Sculpture is
under the direction of
Mr. Percy Portsmouth,
A.R.S.A.; Architecture,
Mr. John Watson,
A.R.I.B.A; and Design,
Mr. William Black; while
the evening classes are
superintended by Mr. J.
Campbell MitcheH,
A.R.S.A. The department
tal heads are allowed to
carry on a certain amount
of private work — an ar-
rangement which will be
greatly to the advantage
of the CoIIege, particularly
in the departments of
painting and scutpture.

The school has started
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DETAIL OF REREDOS DESIGNED BY A. E. MARTIN
CARVED BY STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL OI'* ART WOOD-CARVING