Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1856, Vol. 2 The practice with us heretofore has been - thanks to the Germans and French - to spend a great deal of time in copying examples in pen-work, pencil-work, and brush-war - the method known as comb-work, and one of the greatest absurdities ever introduced from the continent, being ignored by the present generation, - while but little time has been given to the practical work of making sketches and plans in the field. Now, with all due deference to the skilful handlers of pen, pencil, and brush, we would reverse the thing, and occupy most of the pupils' time actually in the field in making original plans and sketches and if our pupils succeeded in making them correct, we mould not be very fastidious as to neatness and beauty of execution, our chief and indeed only object being utility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.