THESE BOOKS WERE PLANNED IN A SERIES OF CONFERENCES AND CONSULTATIONS WITH LEADING ART TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS, AMONG WHOM

WERE THE FOLLOWING:

MISS BONNIE E. SNOW, FORMERLY DIRECTOR OF ART, PUBLIC
SCHOOLS, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

MISS WILHELMINA SEEGMILLER, DIRECTOR OF ART, PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MISS HARRIETTE L. RICE, DIRECTOR OF ART, PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
PROVIDENCE, R. I.

MR. WALTER SCOTT PERRY, DIRECTOR OF THE ART DEPARTMENT,
PRATT INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, N. Y.

MRS. M. E. RILEY, DIRECTOR OF ART, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ST. LOUIS, Mo.

DR. HUGO MÜNSTERBERG, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, HARVARD
UNIVERSITY.

MRS. ALICE W. COOLEY, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY
OF NORTH DAKOTA.

MR. JOHN S. CLARK, BOSTON, MASS.

Acknowledgment.

We are indebted to the publishers, Little, Brown and Company, for permission to use Emily Dickinson's poem, "A Day" (page 12), and for the lines from Helen Hunt Jackson's "September" (page 16); to Houghton, Mifflin and Company, for the quotation from Celia Thaxter's "Spring" (page 14), and that from Frank Dempster Sherman's "Fairy Jewels" (page 5); and to Charles Scribner's Sons for the quotation from Henry van Dyke's "The Angler's Wish" (page 25), from "The Builders and Other Poems," and for the quotations from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Bed in Summer" (page 13), and "Marching Song" (page 30), from "A Child's Garden of Verses."

For the Theory of Color Relations used in these books, special acknowledgment is due to Dr. Denman W. Ross, of Harvard University. The lessons in Design are preparatory to the fuller exposition in the upper books of Dr. Ross's principles of arrangement - Balance, Rhythm and Harmony.

"When Napoleon decreed that every child in the schools of France should be taught to draw, he gave such an impetus to the artistic life of the French that, in this respect, no nation has since approached them."