under clause 3 a, and the prizes to be given by means of Annual Examinations of an elementary character, called of the 2d grade. The payments and prizes under clause 3 b will be determined by an annual inspection in London of the works of the various classes named.

As respects all awards of payments and prizes, the Department will be the sole judge, and will not enter into correspondence respecting its decisions. 8. The Local Committee or Managers of the Night Class must undertakea. To provide a room or rooms for the meeting of the class, of sufficient size to carry out the examination in accordance with the detailed regulations on that head.

b. To engage a certificated teacher, to keep registers of the students' attendances, and to be responsible for the general conduct of the class.

c. To send in to the Secretary of the Science and Art Department before the 10th of February, a statement of the number of students to be examined in each of the subjects of the 2d grade. The Examination will take place in

March.

d. To be responsible for conducting the examinations; to give out the examination papers which will be sent for that purpose; to see them fairly worked according to the detailed regulations, in the presence of three of their number (the presence of two members of the Committee will be sufficient when fewer than ten students are under examination); to send the worked papers, under seal, by the first post after the examination, to the Secretary of the Department. e. To admit for examination candidates not connected with the class who may desire to present themselves.*

f. To transmit to the offices of this Department for inspection, on or before the 9th of April, the works of students in the various classes named in ¶ 3 b, on account of whose instruction payment is claimed, or who compete for prizes. The Department will pay the carriage of works sent up which are within imperial size, i. e., 22 in. by 30, and the cost of cases for the transmission of these works, on the receipt of proper vouchers.

g. That the Secretary and two members of the Local Committee shall certify that the students on account of whose instruction payment is claimed, are teachers or artisans within definition given on previous page, and that they have been instructed by teachers certificated by the Department in accordance with T2, and that the payments received from the Department shall be devoted to the maintenance and instruction in drawing of the class.

h. That the school shall be open at all times to the visits of the officers of the Science and Art Department.

i. To be responsible for the safe custody of all the examples, casts, &c., purchased by the aid of the Department.

k. To report any changes in the hour of meeting of the class, constitution of the committee, teachers, or particulars of importance.

9. Grants of 75 per cent. will be made towards the purchase of examples selected by the Managers from lists approved by the Department.

AID TO SCHOOLS OF ART.

1. A School of Art is a room or rooms devoted wholly to instruction in Art, where examples of Art are always open for study and inspection, and where the

For the 3d grade, for meritorious works:

Painting Popularly Explained.

Scott's Half-hour Lectures on Art.

Wornum's Lectures of the Academicians on Painting.

Duppa and De Quincy, Lives of Michael Angelo and Raffaelle.

Timb's Anecdotes of Painting.

Small Set of Photographs from Raphael Cartoons; in portfolio.

Ruskin's Elements of Drawing.

Crowe and Cavalcaselle on Flemish Schools of Painting.

Bradley's Elements of Geometry, Part 1.

Bradley's Elements of Geometry, Part 2.

Set of 12 Photographs from Raphael Drawings; in portfolio.

* A fee of not more than 2s. 6d. may be charged on each applicant for examination who is not

a student in the class, to reimburse any extra expenses the Committee may be put to in providing

a room.

Managers employ a teacher who has taken an Art teacher's certificate of the 3d grade.

2. The Science and Art Department will aid the instruction given in Schools of Art to artisans and teachers, when under the direction of a Local Committee of not less than five well-known responsible persons, and instructed by teachers holding one or more Art certificates of the 3d grade, provided Day Classes are held, and that artisan Night Classes meet under the instruction of the master at least three times in each week, for two hours, in rooms approved by the Depart

ment.

One member of the Committee must be appointed to act as Secretary, through whom the correspondence with the Department on the business of the School will be carried on.

3. The following payments will be made to the Local Committee on account of students who are artisans or teachers:

a. Ten shillings for every exercise in Free-hand Drawing from the Flat, Practical Geometry, Drawing from Models or Perspective, satisfactorily worked in a given time by an artisan or teacher who pays fees for being taught.

b. On account of every artisan or teacher who shall submit satisfactory works executed in the School during the previous year, in Drawing from flat examples; Mechanical or Architectural Drawing; Drawing from Geometric Models, Objects of General Utility, or Casts of Ornament, or Drawing Flowers and Foliage from Nature, a sum in proportion to the works sent up, but not exceeding 15s. for any one artisan or teacher.

c. On account of every artisan or teacher who shall submit satisfactory works* executed in the school during the previous year in Drawing, Painting, Modeling, or Designing for Architecture, Manufactures, and Decoration, belonging to classes not included in clauses 3 a and b,* a sum in proportion to the works sent up, but not exceeding 20s. for any one artisan or teacher.

d. On account of Free Studentships, a payment of 31. for every artisan, being a draughtsman, designer, modeler, or handicraftsman, who shall be recommended jointly by the Local Committee and by the Department's examiners, and who shall submit satisfactory works under clause c.

e. Fifteen pounds for an Art pupil-teacher in every school in which twenty artisans are satisfactorily taught; and thirty pounds in every school in which fifty and upwards are so taught, for two Art pupil-teachers.†

f. Five pounds for every student, being an artisan or designer, trained in the School of Art who shall obtain a National Scholarship in the National Art Training School.

g. Ten pounds for every certificate of the 3d grade taken at the annual examination in London by an artisan or teacher trained in the School of Art.

h. Ten pounds for keeping the necessary registers of students, and forwarding, at the appointed time and on the prescribed form, an annual report of the proceedings of the School, and holding an annual examination. This payment is contingent on the holding artisan night classes three times a week for forty weeks, and on the transmission of works to the National Competition.

4. Bonuses, consisting of one sum of 50%.; three sums of 401.; five sums of 30.; ten sums of 201; twenty sums of 101.-will be awarded to the headmasters of Schools of Art in which the results of instruction, as tested by the examinations of the Department, shall be most satisfactory.

5. In Schools of Art conducted satisfactorily, and where artisans are satisfactorily instructed, grants will be made to enable the masters to visit the South Kensington Museum, and other Metropolitan Institutions, in order that they may acquire, for the benefit of their students, a knowledge of the latest progress made in those educational subjects which affect the schools.

6. Special grants of works published under the sanction of the Department, and of other examples, will be made from time to time to such schools as have suitable premises for exhibiting and protecting them, and for their effective use as means of instruction.

By satisfactory works must be understood works well executed from examples of a good class in the section of study through which the student is passing.

† Any artisan who passes a 2d Grade exercise, or sends satisfactory works under clause or c, will be considered satisfactorily taught.

7. Prizes will be given to students of all classes who excel in the examinations of the 2d grade, and to students who send up works of great merit in the classes named in clauses b and c, 3.* The degree of success for which a prize will be awarded will be determined by the Department from year to year.

8. The Department will determine the number of payments to be made under clause 3 a, and prizes to be given, annually, by means of examinations of an elementary character, called of the 2d grade. The payments and prizes under clauses 3 b and c, will be determined by an inspection in London of the works of the various classes named.

9. As respects all awards of payments and prizes, the Department will be the sole judge, and will not enter into correspondence respecting its decisions.

10. The Local Committee, or Managers of the School of Art, must undertakea. To provide a room or rooms for the meeting of the classes, and a place of sufficient size to carry out the 2d grade examination in accordance with the detailed regulations on that head.

b. To appoint, and when necessary, dismiss, a certificated Art Master, and to be responsible for the general conduct of the school.

c. To be responsible for the safe custody of all examples, books lent by the Department, or purchased by its aid.

d. To send in to the Secretary of the Science and Art Department before the 10th of February, a statement of the number of students to be examined in each of the subjects of the 2d grade. This examination will take place in March. e. To be responsible for conducting the examination; to give out the examination papers which will be sent for that purpose; to see them fairly worked according to the detailed regulations, in the presence of at least three of their number; the presence of two members of the Committee will be sufficient when fewer than ten students are under examination; to send the worked papers, under seal, by the first post after the examination, to the Secretary of the Department.

f. To admit for examination candidates not connected with the school who may desire to present themselves.

g. That the school shall be at all times open to the visits of the officers of the Science and Art Department.

h. To transmit to the offices of this Department for inspection, on or before the 9th of April, the works of students in the various classes named in ¶ 3, on account of whose instruction payment is claimed, or who compete for prizes. Models in clay or plaster are only to be transmitted when of great excellence, and for the National Competition, when they must be in low relief and of imperial or half imperial size.

i. That the Secretary and two members of the Local Committee shall certify that the students on account of whose instruction payment is claimed are teachers or artisans within the definition previously given; that they have been instructed by teachers certificated by the Department in accordance with ¶ 2; and that the payments received from the Department shall be devoted to the maintenance and instruction of the School of Art.

k. To make an annual report, on the prescribed form, of their proceedings to the Science and Art Department.

11. The best works in clause c, ¶ 3, sent up for examination, will be selected to enter into a National Competition between the Works of all the Schools of Art in the Kingdom, and medals and prizes will be awarded to those students who execute the most meritorious of the competing works.

12. The prize list will include ten gold medals, distributed as follows:One gold medal for the best study from the Antique in chalk or monochrome. This study must be from a single figure in the round, and must be executed within the dimensions of an imperial sheet.

*These prizes will consist of works of art, books, instruments, &c. No examples will be prescribed for prize drawings, but prizes will only be awarded to works executed from examples of a sound and useful character.

No examples will be prescribed for competition, but the prizes awarded will be so distributed as to encourage students to pursue a sound and useful course of instruction, similar to that which has hitherto been pursued in Schools of Art. The Examiners in 1868 were D. Maclise, R.A.; J. C. Horsley, R.A.; Richard Westmacott, R.A.; F. Leighton, R.A.; Sir M. D. Wyatt; R. Redgrave, R.A., and the Official Inspector.

OF THE

One gold medal for the best study of the figure modeled from the Antique. This study must be from a single figure and not more than thirty inches in height. One gold medal for the best example of painting a group of still life from nature, as a composition of color, in oil, or water-color. The dimensions of this work must be 20 inches by 16 inches, or, if of other proportions, of equal or nearly equal surface.

Six medals for the best designs in the three classes, Architectural Design, Surface Design, Plastic Design.

One medal for a work of a class not included under the above-named heads. Twenty silver medals, of which part will be given to the second best works in the various subjects to which gold medals are assigned, and the rest to meritorious works in the same, or the best works in other, subjects of study.

Fifty bronze medals to meritorious works in any of the various subjects. Any of these medals may be withheld if, in the opinion of the examiners, the works in any subject are not of sufficient merit to deserve them.

Should any student obtain more than one distinction in any National Competition, he will be allowed the medal attached to the highest distinction he has obtained, with a certificate of his further success.

Students who obtain medals of the same class in more than one year's competition, may receive books, &c., instead of medals.

No student can receive a medal of the same class twice for the same subject. Additional prizes of works of art, books, &c., will also be awarded.

13. Works executed by students not included under the definition of artisan will be admitted to the National Competition and be eligible to gain prizes.

14. The Department will pay the carriage of works sent up under these rules, within imperial size; or when larger, if on stretchers constructed to fold within the imperial size.

15. The works entering into the National Competition will be exhibited in London, and in some one of the more important towns of the kingdom where suitable space can be provided.

16. A Night Class forms part of a School of Art, and Night Classes taught by the master of a School of Art or by teachers holding certificates of the 3d grade under his direction, but meeting elsewhere under the management of the Local Committee, may be considered as branches of the School of Art, and works under clause c, 3, executed in them may be sent up with the works of the School of Art for payments and for admission to the National Competition. 17. A grant not exceeding 2s. 6d. per superficial foot will be made, up to a maximum of 4,000 feet, in aid of new buildings, or buildings to be adapted for Schools of Art, provided:

a. That there is a population which requires a School of Art.

b. That the School of Art is likely to be maintained in efficiency.

c. That the site, plans, estimates, specifications, title, and trust-deed, be satisfactory to the Committee of Council.

18. Grants of 75 per cent. will be made on Art examples selected by the managers from lists approved by the Department.

19. In special cases where schools are permanently established and entirely devoted to instruction in Art, aid will be given towards the provision of apparatus and fittings specially constructed.

20. Schools of Art are entitled to borrow from the South Kensington Museum and Library objects of decorative art, drawings, oil paintings, prints, books, &c., for exhibition and for use as examples under the regulations given. The Department will also issue such works, reproductions, &c., as may appear suitable to be retained as permanent loans for longer periods.

21. Students of Schools of Art who propose to become teachers, and who have taken the 1st certificate of the 3d grade, are eligible to compete for admission to the National Art Training School at South Kensington, with a maintenance allowance of 15s. or 20s. weekly. Students having passed in three, or, if females, in two, papers of the 1st certificate, may compete for admission as free students.

22. Students in Schools of Art may compete for National Scholarships which have been established at South Kensington. These are of the value of 501, per annum, and are tenable for one or two years,

23. Two scholarships, of the value of 251. and 117. respectively, have been founded, and called "The Princess of Wales's Scholarships," for the two students who, being females, have taken the highest prizes of the year in the National Competition of all the Schools of Art.

EXAMINATIONS FOR PRIZES ONLY.

1. Public examinations may be held in places where no School of Art or Night Class exists, provided that a committee of not less than five well-known responsible persons be formed to conduct them under the regulations laid down for Schools of Art.

2. Prizes will be given to successful candidates of all classes, but no payments can be made on account of the success of students instructed by uncertificated teachers.

THE NATIONAL ART TRAINING SCHOOL.

The school at South Kensington is established for the purpose of training Art Masters and Mistresses for the United Kingdom, and the instruction of students. in drawing, designing, and modeling, to be applied to the requirements of trade and manufactures. Particulars as to course of instruction, maintenance allowances, &c., will be given in another place.

LECTURES AT SOUTH KENSINGTON.

A course of twelve lectures on Anatomy, as applicable to the Arts, is given in each session; other lectures are delivered occasionally.

SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

The Museum contains (in 1869, 20,000) objects collected with a view to illus trate the history, theory, and practical application of decorative Art, and classified under the following divisions:

I. Sculpture, Carvings in Wood, and II. Medals (Electrotypes), Seals, &c. III. Mosaics, Marquetry, &c.

IV. Paintings.

V. Japanned or Lacquered Work. VI. Glass Painting.

VII. Enamels.

VIII. Pottery.

IX. Glass Manufactures.

X. Works in Metal and Electro-Copies.

XI. Watches, Clocks, &c.
XII. Jewelry, and

XIII. Arms, Armor, &c.
XIV. Furniture.

XV. Leather Work.
XVI. Basket Work.
XVII. Textile Fabrics.
XVIII. Book-binding.

Selections from these collections can be made according to the special requirements of each locality.

A series of specimens, accompanied by a card label, on which is printed its title and description, mounted in suitable glazed frames for exhibition, are loaned to the local schools, on such conditions as will secure suitable rooms for the exhibition of works of Art, insure protection from fire, and the admission of the public, especially artisans.

ART LIBRARY.

The Art Library of Books (in 1869 of 25,000 volumes, 8,600 Prints, Diagrams, and Photograms) is designed for the instruction of students of the National Art Training School and the Schools of Art; and for the use of the General Public on subjects connected with the history, practice, and illustration of Art. The collection of photograms includes architectural subjects, ancient drawings, examples of ornament, and specimens of Art from various public and private collections, both in Great Britain and abroad, to the number of 35,000. Selections from the Library are loaned to the local Schools of Art to the extent of ten volumes at a time.

RESULTS IN 1868.

In 1868, there were 107 Schools of Art in connection with the Department, with 20,050 students, besides 120,928 children who received instruction in Drawing at 1,094 popular schools, taught by teachers trained in the National Art Training School at South Kensington.