ABSTRACT
William Cooke-Taylor was a prolific Irish author and advocate for the Anti-Corn Law League. The masters have had no share in excluding from the School courses of lectures on the history of the Decorative Arts. At Paris and at Lyons lectures are given to the pupils not only in the laws of motion as applied to machinery, but in all the applications of the productive powers of machinery to manufactures. The lecturer was a Lyonnese weaver, who thoroughly understood his business, and he had to meet a very attentive and rather critical audience; young and old took notes, some in short-hand. At the Schools of Superior primary Instruction in France not only is chemistry taught by efficient lecturers, but a laboratory is provided for every two pupils, at which they work for a specified time daily, under the inspection of the Professor or one of his qualified assistants.
