ABSTRACT
Tom Taylor was a comic playwright and journalist; art critic of The Times and of The Graphic. It was hoped that by giving the English instruction in design through Schools of Art in connection with a central department the people should in the long run add equality if not superiority in design to our more material advantages over foreign competitors. It is no business of this school to teach him to make pictures at all-only to put him in the way of learning that art and mystery if he has a special vocation for it. The careful study of all detail is necessary in the earlier stages of study, that the master come to maturity may know what to discard and what to retain of his multitudinous minor facts. It is perseverance in the practice of them, under discouragement, and against the temptation to earn applause, or even success, at the cost of violating them, that is difficult.
