Excerpt from A Postscript to the Section on Iron Defenses: Contained in the Fifth Edition of 'Naval Gunnery' IN the article entitled 'iron Sides and Wooden Walls, ' in the Quarterly Review for October, 1860, the Reviewer states that it is difficult to see by what process of reasoning Sir Howard Douglas had arrived at the conclusions stated in the fifth edition of the Naval Gunnery. The article professes to be a review of the works whose titles are prefixed, but the writer only alludes to the one and takes no notice of the other. He neither states the facts that have been established, nor the results obtained from. The experiments recorded in Section XII. Of the Naval Gunnery, ' nor the question which I proposed to examine for the purpose of bringing the whole subject of iron defences broadly before the country for fair and impartial discussion. I am well aware that it has become a common practice for writers in Reviews to place at the head of their articles the titles of books which are not even mentioned in the body of the article. 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.