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No subject at present occupies so important a place in the thoughts of
American architects as that of architectural education, if the space
given to it in recent publications is an indication of its importance.
The proceedings of the annual convention of the American Institute of
Architects, held last autumn in New York, have just been published, and
no less than five papers are included which deal with one or another
phase of this subject. The later numbers of the professional journals
also contain several noteworthy contributions to the discussion. Mr.
Barr Ferree's criticism in _The Architectural Review,_ of the methods of
training pursued in the School of Fine Arts in Paris, have led to
several papers by adherents of the French system and to a
well-considered editorial in the same paper. But the most important
contribution to the question is that of Mr. Henry Rutgers Marshall in
the last number of _The Architectural Record,_ which also contains a
descriptive article upon the Royal Polytechnicum at Berlin and its
course of study.

There is very little in any of these articles which adds to the existing
knowledge on this largely discussed subject; it is what might be
considered a rethreshing of old straw, and the main value of all of the
articles is in the presentation, which may appeal to readers who have
not before thought of the matter in all of its bearings. The papers read
before the convention begin with the report of the committee