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PRESENTATION ADDRESS DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY
EDITH LOVELL ANDREWS
(iGlasgow School of Art)

guineas paid in advance, and the prospectus
announces that “Six Persons wishing to form a
Class to learn the Principles ” could do so for a
guinea an hour. What the principles were is not
divulged, but there seems little doubt that Sass
though a bad painter was a good teacher. Wilkie
and Constable both recommended him, and so
did Sir Thomas Lawrence, who himself arranged
the casts in the antique room in Charlotte Street,
which was designed on the lines of the Pantheon
in Rome. And he was also recommended by
Lawrence’s successor in the Presidential office to
a future President, for it was to Sass’s school, by
the advice of Sir Martin Archer Shee, that Millais
went as a child of nine, to pass into the Academy
school at ten—the youngest student on record at
that school.

The exhibition of the Gilbert-Garret Sketch
Club held last month in Great Ormond Street was
fully up to the very creditable average of its recent
predecessors. Mr. C. Ince in Canvey (No. 22)
showed a charcoal landscape of great excellence.
Other good landscapes in oil or water-colour were
contributed by Mr. J. Heir, Mr. W. B. Rowe, and
Mr. J. Barnard Davis. Figure painters were less
in evidence than usual, but Mr. E. V. Pearce had
uwo or three attractive studies in oil, and Mr. A. P.
Monger’s picture of an old woman at her fireside
was careful and sincere, though unduly hard.
Some spirited poster designs were exhibited by
Mr. Jack May. W. T. W.

methods of reproduction and other technical
matters that can only be supplied by specialists
engaged in the production of journals in which
illustration is an important feature.

Seventy years ago London possessed only one
private art school worth considering, and to this
school in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, directed
by Mr. Henry Sass, went most of the boys and
young men of the time who wished to prepare for
the entrance examination of the Royal Academy
schools. By chance a prospectus of Sass’s school,
issued in 1840, lately came into the hands of the
writer of these notes, and some of its particulars
may perhaps be of interest to art students of to-
day. The morning classes, it is curious to note,
were held from eight till ten, and the fee was twelve
guineas a year, with an extra guinea a year for
every hour’s study after ten. Students who wished
to become private pupils of Mr. Sass could enter
into a five years’ engagement for two hundred
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GLASGOW.—In the revival of the art of
lettering, which was practised with so
much success in the Middle Ages,
Glasgow has not been behindhand.
At the School of Art many students devote them-
selves to the art. Amongst the more individualistic
exponents stands Edith Lovell Andrews, a young
student of the school, who was selected to write
the address presented to the esteemed Principal,
Mr. Francis H. Newbery, on the occasion of the
recent celebrations connected with the inaugura-
tion of the extension. The whole design is delight-
fully simple, charmingly illuminated, and quite
unique in style. Miss Andrews’ method of letter-
ing is somewhat daring. On a large scroll of
vellum, on which there are over a hundred names,
she does the brush work without previous pencil-
ling, and with an unerring rapidity that is sur-
prising. The artist is now engaged on the
“ printing ” of a ballad, in a style and shape that
will go to constitute it a remarkable book. J. T.