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of a very interesting educational experiment. Six personal endeavour, and of the power of the
years ago Mr. E. B. Sargant started at South teacher unfettered by the red tape which seems
Hackney a school which, we regret to add, has just inevitable in all huge bodies, it deserves careful
been closed, owing to reasons we have not space study. The power of arousing the latent person-
to explain here. The idea was to " educate each ality of each child, only possible perhaps where
child so that his best powers may be developed in comparatively small numbers are in individual
after-life." Glancing through its pages of original contact with their master, whether we apply it to
prose and verse, in the handwriting of the scholar, elementary schools or art-schools of the highest
and especially at its sheets of decorative design, rank, is one which no " system " can hope to equal,
one is struck by the amazing vitality they display Everywhere we see the art-school is a reflection of
when compared with the average machine-made the personality—or lack of it—in the head-master,
product of the board school. Indeed, not a few of and this book is a stroug document for those who
the designs reach the level of those sent in to our plead for the old apprentice or studio system, as
own competitions ftom (presumably) trained art- opposed to huge organisations ruled by those to
students. As an instance of the supreme value of whom the pupils are mere items, all to be treated
alike, and crammed with an
average amount of knowledge,
without regard for their own
idiosyncrasies.
Elemefitary Wood Carving.
By John Williams. (Lon-
don : W. H. Batho, 7 Gres-
ham Street.)—This portfolio
of full-sized working draw-
ings, with explanatory text,
contains some quite admir-
able designs chiefly in the
Gothic and Renaissance
styles. So much clever craft
is wasted on poor designs—
or worse than wasted on ela-
borate Nature imitation —
that this excellent set may
be warmly commended. The
designs are consistent, tho-
roughly suited to the materials,
and all kept simple, yet with-
out poverty of effect, and,
above all, practical and easy
to carry out.
L'Art Photographique. By
A. Horsley Hinton. (Paris :
Gauthier Villars.) This ex-
cellent treatise, translated ad-
mirably into French by M.
Hector Colard, is specially
interesting by reason of some
pen-drawings by the author,
which show a very pleasant
quality and handling. One
on scratch-out board, Plate
VII., is a very satisfactory
effort to manipulate that not
very tractable material. Plates
first prize " yarra " IX and v. also deserve com-
xlii
of a very interesting educational experiment. Six personal endeavour, and of the power of the
years ago Mr. E. B. Sargant started at South teacher unfettered by the red tape which seems
Hackney a school which, we regret to add, has just inevitable in all huge bodies, it deserves careful
been closed, owing to reasons we have not space study. The power of arousing the latent person-
to explain here. The idea was to " educate each ality of each child, only possible perhaps where
child so that his best powers may be developed in comparatively small numbers are in individual
after-life." Glancing through its pages of original contact with their master, whether we apply it to
prose and verse, in the handwriting of the scholar, elementary schools or art-schools of the highest
and especially at its sheets of decorative design, rank, is one which no " system " can hope to equal,
one is struck by the amazing vitality they display Everywhere we see the art-school is a reflection of
when compared with the average machine-made the personality—or lack of it—in the head-master,
product of the board school. Indeed, not a few of and this book is a stroug document for those who
the designs reach the level of those sent in to our plead for the old apprentice or studio system, as
own competitions ftom (presumably) trained art- opposed to huge organisations ruled by those to
students. As an instance of the supreme value of whom the pupils are mere items, all to be treated
alike, and crammed with an
average amount of knowledge,
without regard for their own
idiosyncrasies.
Elemefitary Wood Carving.
By John Williams. (Lon-
don : W. H. Batho, 7 Gres-
ham Street.)—This portfolio
of full-sized working draw-
ings, with explanatory text,
contains some quite admir-
able designs chiefly in the
Gothic and Renaissance
styles. So much clever craft
is wasted on poor designs—
or worse than wasted on ela-
borate Nature imitation —
that this excellent set may
be warmly commended. The
designs are consistent, tho-
roughly suited to the materials,
and all kept simple, yet with-
out poverty of effect, and,
above all, practical and easy
to carry out.
L'Art Photographique. By
A. Horsley Hinton. (Paris :
Gauthier Villars.) This ex-
cellent treatise, translated ad-
mirably into French by M.
Hector Colard, is specially
interesting by reason of some
pen-drawings by the author,
which show a very pleasant
quality and handling. One
on scratch-out board, Plate
VII., is a very satisfactory
effort to manipulate that not
very tractable material. Plates
first prize " yarra " IX and v. also deserve com-
xlii