be done
by bringing in aid; but whenever precious work was to be done, then the
great man said, "Lock me up here by myself, give me a little wine and
cheese, and come in a month, and I will show you what I have done."

Do you think it desirable that the pupils should be so trained as to be
capable of assisting great masters in such works?--Assuredly.

NOTE.--The following analysis of the above evidence was
given in the Index to the Report (pp. 139, 140).--ED.

168-69. The Academy not in all points satisfactory. Would wish to
see the Academicians not self-elected.--But by a constituency
consisting both of artists and the public.--Public influence to be
the same in painting as in music.

170. As to the Associates: is in favor of some period of
probation.--Their class to be unlimited, with a very limited number
of Academicians.

171. Has formed no opinion on the question of introducing laymen
into the Academy; in matters of revenue they might be joined with
artists, but not in the selection and hanging of pictures: opposed
on the whole to their introduction, considering the present state
of art education.--As he would like to see the Academy constituted,
thinks the president ought to be an artist.

172. General effect of the Academy's teaching upon the art of the
country merely nugatory.--Would have a much more comprehensive
system of teaching.

173. The Academy education to correspond wholly to the University
education.

174. Not easy but very necessary for the Academy to adopt an
authoritative system of teaching.

175. His idea of what the Academy teaching should be; would have a
school of chemistry.

176. The teaching of wall-painting in permanent materials should be
a branch, possibly the principal branch.

177. Not satisfied with the selection of artists to be members of
the Academy.

178. In some cases the selection of pictures has been injudicious,
but this a matter of small importance; the main point is how the
pictures that are admitted are to be best seen.

179. In favor of an educational test for candidates for admission
into the Academy.

180. And of professors of art at the Universities.

181. Causes of the want of refinement observable in many modern
pictures; the large prices they fetch harmful.

182. Teac