It unfortunately happens that in most elementary treatises on perspective, designed for the youthful student, as well as the adult, it has been a custom with writers to introduce the subject either with a description of the perspective plane and theory Of vanishing lines, the nature Of which cannot at the outset be comprehended, or to encumber his subject with a multiplicity Of geometrical terms and figures, Of only a few of which he has any positive need in practice - unmindful that the ardent temperament Of the votary of the Fine Arts is least Of all fitted for calm reflection or patient investigation.

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