drawing, crude in color, devoid of modelling, and lacking in perspective. And judging from specimens extant, a goodly proportion of them wee the results of pure invention ; and any one was tolerable free from all risk of breaking the seond commandment in admiring them, for they were totally unlike anything " in the heavens above, the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth."
Aside from color, decorative or applied art is distinctively a separate branch, or rather a science in itself. A knowledge of it can be aquired theoretically, practically, and mechanically, as certain inviolable rules and regulations, involving elementary principles of art, govern its conception and construction.
Decoration is the composition of oranament, so that when applied to form it enhances its beauty and increases its value.
It should be in consonance with the object to which the decoration is applied ; that is, it should be adapted to the shape, approriate to the material, and should harmonize with the use to which it is ultimately to be put, ---whether for utility or ornament, --- and other general features should be considered. The object of decorative art is not the creation of a seperat work, but the fulfilment of a definite purpose, chiefly to ornament something already in existence ; therefore it should
