. The Decorator's assistant. ariety, the details andaccessories illustrative, as well of peculiarmodes of arrangement and combination, as ofthe distinctive characteristics of style anddesign; the chronologist hence may deduceauthentic data to determine, with truly remark-able exactness, successive seras and epochs;the artist has before him original compositions,illustrating the early excellence, and then theprogressive though happily only temporary,decline in the art, of such pre-eminent impor-tance, that of incision; to the general anti(juary, from the same source, widely diversifiedinformati
. The Decorator's assistant. ariety, the details andaccessories illustrative, as well of peculiarmodes of arrangement and combination, as ofthe distinctive characteristics of style anddesign; the chronologist hence may deduceauthentic data to determine, with truly remark-able exactness, successive seras and epochs;the artist has before him original compositions,illustrating the early excellence, and then theprogressive though happily only temporary,decline in the art, of such pre-eminent impor-tance, that of incision; to the general anti(juary, from the same source, widely diversifiedinformation will accrue; the palaeographer alsois hence enabled to fix the distinctive form ofletter used at certain periods, together with theprevalent peculiarities of contraction ?3ndabbreviation, conformable, for the most part,to that which is found in legends depicted uponstained glass, in illuminations, or on engravedseals.—Boutells ^^ Monumental Brasses andSlabs. 148 THE DECORATOR S ASSISTANT. ^fie iSobemment School ot Mm^n*. N the considera-tion of a sub-ject the bestmethod is de-cidedly to con-sider it andhard words are morecalculated to resentprivate injuries than tocorrect public wrongs,however honest and earnest thequarrellers may be in theirpurposes. It is a well-knownfact that the present system ofeducation pursued at the Go-vernment School of Design isdeficient in very many particu-lars, and in some actually sub-versive of those very prin-ciples which it is its object to inculcate; but,without going to the extreme length to whichsome of our contemporaries have gone on thematter, we cannot on that account join incrying down an institution which really pro-mises well were it only placed under judiciousmanagement, and the time now being spent mbickerings and personalities devoted to thecalm and sensible consideration of what wouldbe really serviceable to its own interests andthe interests of its pupils. Since Mr. Wilson, the artist, has receivedhis appointm
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