Excerpt from The Making of Pictures: Twelve Short Talks With Young PeopleIt has always been so it may be safely said that it will continue to be so, while in the period in which we live, when mechanical adjustments and scientific processes have varied the methods of Ob taining pictures, and multiplied their number almost infinitely, a very large part of the education of our country is carried on by means of pictures. They are found in all directions: magazines are profusely illustrated, books and papers are full of them, the photograph, the lithograph, the engraving, are produced in enormous quantities in Short, we live in a world of pictures, and consciously, or uncon sciously, we are receiving numberless impressions from them. It is these impressions which, as I have just said, educate us, for all sorts of ideas regarding men and things find their way to our minds through seeing pictures which represent what is going on in life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.