and diligent application, even with limited ability, will often excel where one in possession of some natural talent, but to indifferent or indolent to cultivate it, will fail. One is progressive, ---the true spirit in which to enter the realms of art ; the other commonplace.
Those who have not enjoyed the privileges of a preparatory art education, but desire to undertake the decoration of china, need not be discouraged ; for every facility is offered towards its accomplishment.
It is a laudable ambition, and should be fostered ; it may lead to better things. and an effort, through a feeble one, is infinitely preferable to no effort at all. It is the absence of effort that is discouraging.
Many inducements are ostentatiously displayed to tempt the novice into making a trial. Even ideas and suggestions are supplied to those deficient in these attributes.
Having yielded to this commendable impulse of at least making an experimental effort, the untrained amateur encounters the first obstacle in his career as a china-decorator,---the inability to draft original designs. But even this need not prove an actual impediment, nor extinguish a modest ambition to continue, since designs of all sizes and description are everywhere available. To be
