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760 eleven (position on chart at 0, a year and a half above the average of their age), shows the vertical recorded nearly upright fifty-one times, greatest variation twenty degrees, while the oblique



lines of the trapezium show the maximum possible variation forty-five degrees, with few lines near the right slant.

The so-called child drawing, so much written about of late, that Herbert Spencer and many others deem of educational importance, may be described as line making without conscious effort—the graphic record of a muscular movement associated with a concept. It becomes more plausible as years advance, but never gets beyond caricature, and has no direct educational value.

Drawing, to have educational value, must be the graphic record of a perceived fact.