Need of Technical Instruction.

Not many years have passed since the time when it would still have been a matter for argument whether, in order to maintain the high position which this country has attained in the industrial arts, it is incumbent upon us to take care that our managers, our foremen, and our workmen should, in the degrees compatible with their circumstances, combine theoretical instruction with their acknowledged practical skill. No argument of this kind is needed at the present day. In nearly all the great industrial centres, in the metropolis, in Glasgow, in Manchester, Liverpool, Oldham, Leeds, page 42 Bradford Huddersfield, Keighley, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, The Potteries; and elsewhere, more or Less nourishing schools of science and art, of various grades, together with numerous art and science classes, exist, and their influence may be traced in the productions of the localities in which they are placed.