(2) “Finish such and such a portion of it” (given a very small portion) “as perfectly as you can, irrespective of time.”
(3) “Sketch it in color in half an hour.”
(4) “Design an ornament for a given place and purpose.”
(5) “Sketch a picture of a given historical event in pen and ink.”
(7) “Name the picture you were most interested in in the Royal Academy Exhibition of this year. State in writing what you suppose to be its principal merits—faults—the reasons of the interest you took in it.”
I think it is only the fourth of these questions which would admit of much change; and the seventh, in the name of the exhibition; the question being asked, without previous knowledge by the students, respecting some one of four or five given exhibitions which should be visited before the Examination.
This being my general notion of what an Art-Examination should be, the second great question remains of the division of schools and connection of studies.
Now I have not yet considered—I have not, indeed, knowledge enough to enable me to consider—what the practical convenience or results of given arrangements would be. But the logical and harmonious arrangement is surely a simple one; and it seems to me as if it would not be inconvenient, namely (requiring elementary drawing with arithmetic in the preliminary Examination), that there should then be three advanced schools:
A. The School of Literature (occupied chiefly in the study of human emotion and history).