including the chiefs of the schools of
architecture at the different American colleges where such exist. We
give below some quotations from this circular which will be found of
interest.

The school is founded for the benefit of advanced students only, and is
designed to further the more disciplinary work of other institutions by
opening to young men, already well trained by them in drawing and
design, certain special lines of study, which at present can be pursued
only under great disadvantages. Beginners, accordingly, will not be
received. Such work is not suitable to their condition, and it would be
a mistake to encourage them to devote their time to it. But to the
holders of traveling scholarships, to those who have acquitted
themselves with distinction in the competitions for these scholarships,
and to members of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of at least three years'
standing, it offers opportunities for the completion of their
professional training which students thus equipped will, it is believed,
find of inestimable value. Other well-accredited students may be
admitted to certain hospitalities of the school, at the discretion of
the secretary.

Hitherto the holders of traveling scholarships have followed very
largely their own judgment as to their travel and study, and have
produced, as required, a certain number of carefully measured drawings,
which have borne testimony to the diligence of their authors, their
facility with pen, pencil, and brush, and the evident seriousness of
their intentions; but the work has necessarily shown no common purpose
and little consistent prosecution along carefully chosen lines. This
being their common experience, the past holders of traveling
scholarships are general in their approval of the effort to direct
foreign travel and study hereafter to more definite and specific
courses.

The school is one of observation and research rather than of design,
aiming to form a correct taste and to impress upon the mind, by daily
contact with great examples, those principles which are essential to the
enduring quality in architecture, be the style what it may. To this end
the founders of the school believe it to be of the utmost importance for
an architect, before he begins his professional career, to study
thoroughly and on the spot the monuments of ancient architecture and
such works of the Italian Renaissance as are worthy of being considered
their successors. The monuments best suited to