who
need further help, and students may obtain the use of a room for private
practice together. In the afternoons, too, there is time and opportunity
for any other extra study or lessons which are not included in the
ordinary course, such as violin, solo singing, drawing or painting. Most
of the students soon acquire wide interests, if they do not have them
when they first come. Free afternoons may be spent in visiting the
galleries and shops of Dresden. Whenever there is anything especially
good in the way of a concert, or an opera or a classical play, there is
always a party of enthusiasts going into town for it. The opera in
Dresden, as in other parts of Germany, fortunately begins and ends
early. Late hours are not encouraged at the Hostel--indeed, everybody is
glad to retire early, for the work is absorbing and demands plenty of
energy, especially if the full teachers' course be taken, with the hope
of a diploma at the end of two years.

[Illustration: The Hostel.]

Supper is served at a quarter-past seven, and on two evenings a week
those who wish to join the orchestral or choral societies have the
pleasure of meeting together and practising under the direction of
Monsieur Jaques-Dalcroze.

An atmosphere of enthusiasm and good-will permeates the social life. No
community of the kind could have a more delightful spirit of unity than
that which pervades the Jaques-Dalcroze School. All students are keen
and anxious to live as full a life as possible, every one will willingly
and unselfishly take time and trouble to help others who know less than
themselves. The College has a unity born of kindred interests, and
every one glows with admiration and esteem for the genius at the head,
and for his wonderful method, whilst he himself simply radiates
good-will and enthusiasm, and works harder than any one else in the
place. He makes a point of knowing each one of his pupils personally,
and remarkably quick he is in summing up the various temperaments and
characters of those with whom he comes into contact.

The moral and mental tone of the College is pure and beautiful, indeed
it could not well be otherwise, for the work in itself is an
inspiration. A change is often observable in pupils after they have been
but a few weeks in residence, a change which tells of more alertness of
mind, of more animated purpose, and even of higher ideals and aims in
life.

[Illustration: Dresden from Hellerau.]

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