The Attack and Defence of Coast-Fortifications

ISBN: 9781332766949 出版年：2016 页码：130 Edward Maguire Forgotten Books

Again: a great many of the text-books go too much into the details of old forms, and devote too much attention to dead issues. The tendency is to force the young man to spend part of his life in a past age; that is, to encumber his mind with a mass of information which even his grandsire would have been glad to have forgotten.