J. MORAND

Extrait du Hamilton Daily Spectator du 19 Sept. 1873.

# STEREOMETRICAL TABLEAU.?”-—In a large number of schools in Germany the pupils are taught, froim the time they commence the alphabet, to judge of color and geometrical form by the regular use and comparison of coloured siips and small blocks of wood representing the elementary principles which will, in after years, be called into study. The advantages of this early training are very manifest, as all are aware of the superiority of this nationality in that branch of science. Au exceedingly ingenius device for the study of forms has been invented by Mr. C. Baillairgé, a native of Quebec, and patented in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It consists of a board about six feet long, and four feet wide, on which are placed some two hundred models, comprising, so to say, all the elementary forms, their segments and sections and numerous other solids, both simple and compound. ‘The instruction conveyed by this tableau, appealing as it does to the uneducated eye and mind, is, the inventor thinks, destined to be of great use in developing the intelligence of the beginner and the untaught masses of mankind. Mr. Baillairgé is in possession of a mass of printed testimonials from high officials and other distinguished men in Canada and Europe,