ABSTRACT
It is by counteracting this habit of mind tpat the technical classes of which we hear so much are useful, and that an Association such as the Home Arts and Industries, which may be called a pioneer and ally of the Technical Classes, has so much value. Founded some fifteen years ago as the Cottage Arts Association, it took in 1885 its present name and organisation, and has now developed into a great society which seems destined, in many places, to revive the cottage industries so rapidly disappearing in the United Kingdom, and which, whether it attains this object or not, does the scarcely less important work of cultivating the intelligence and constructive faculty of its pupils, and teaching the happiness of making with their own hands articles both of use and beauty, the pride and pleasure so great to man, woman or child, of saying, " This is my own work."
