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                                   IN TROD U C TI ON.
Design, he would have done better; had he cultivated and perfected that elementary
knowledge,
his difficulties would have all vanished, and the beginning and end of his
labor would have been
placed~ at once before him.   Make them artists, or, better still, artist-workmen,
and, with their
proverbial energy, intelligence, and enterprise, no limit can be placed to
what our mcchanics
may achieve.,
     A knowledge of Design, even in copying, gives great advantages.    If
he understands the
principles upon which the original is produced, there is no fear of the 
 copyist      committing
offensive variations.  How often do we see the most beautiful designs distorted
into deformity by
thc variation of a single line; an error of ignorance that must continually
occur, until our me-
chanics are better instructed in this branch of education.  It is a vain
hope, that a work so limited
as this, will supply all the information the artisan should require; but
should it lead him to make
a beginning, he will so soon find his advantage in it, that he will be induced
to pursue it farther.
He will have his children and apprentices instructed; he will urge the establishment
of schools
and collections of models, to which they can be directed; and he will in
his own time see the
fruits, in the advancement of our manufactures to a degree of perfection
that can never exist,
without an intimate connexion between them and the Arts of Design.
     There are those of another class of society to whom education in Drawing
would prove
a real blessing.  Of the thousands of helpless and dependent females, who
are compelled to
toil night and day, in painful and ill-paid labor, to the destruction of
health and life, too
many are tempted into paths of vice and misery by absolute necessity, who
undoubtedly possess
capacity  that   needs   but cultivation and development      to secure respectability
and sup-
port.  The natural refinement and fertility of the female mind renders it
a fruitful field for
cultivation, that should be rescued from neglect.  If the voice of right
and mercy plead not
with sufficient eloquence in their behalf, let that of interest at least
prevail.  Give to women
the advantages of education in Design. Begin in your public schools-let them
carry it to
their homes, to the manufacture of articles of taste and fancy; to the early
education of their
children-and more, if they possess the capacity, let them take the pencil,
the chisel, or the
burin, and instead of broken-hearted victims of incessant toil, we shall
soon see them filling
the places, and with the wages of men, in departments of usefulness and industry
for which
they are by nature so eminently qualified.