Excerpt from Brickmakers' Manual In sending out a book to find readers it is important that it be one that is instructive, or highly entertaining. There are many reasons for this. The principal reason is that books are so plenty and have become so cheap, that there are many good books begging for readers. Every field seems to be fully occupied in the domain Of literature. Let us glance over it and see: History is a fertile, and at this day, a very productive field. History is being enacted every day, and all about us. The times are fraught with great events, and we do not lack historians. Scientific workers and writers are busy, and their name is legion in every branch of art, in mechanics, in agriculture, the scientist has been there with the alembic, the crucible and retort, and where the scientist has not been in pursuit Of knowledge no man knoweth. Some Of them have even peered into the glowing arches Of the brick kiln; and in the scientific journals we read of the evolution Of heat from combustion and its close relation to electricity; units Of heat, the fiuxing Of moleen lar coatings, the vitrification Of clays, etc., etc., which all goes to prove that progress has been made and greater results will follow. The poet has told his tale in verse, and we lack nothing in that line. And what a field Of brambles and weeds is fiction! 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.