RECONOGRAPITY.
[To tat Emma or um "Sezerszoa."]
Ste,--Some of the readers of your interesting article lest week on military sketching may ho glad to associate with it the name of William Kingsley, the friend of J. M. W. Turner and J. Ruskin, who appears to have been a pioneer in this essential of the scout profession. More than fifty years ago Kingsley introduced the study of practical scout drawing at Woolwich. Colonel Fawkes, who was a pupil of his in those old dam says that "Mr. Kingsley used to press the vital importance of characteristic rough sketches of the country, as against the (then] prevailing fashion of pretty water-colours." Kingsley himself remarked on the difficulty of getting the young officer to drop the accustomed sacrifice to the "pic- turesque" and to adopt the habit of observing and recording only the features of military value. Tho Rev. W. Kingsley died July 3rd, 1916, aged one hundred and one. His father was an officer in the Peninsular War.—I ant, Sir, Ac.,
E. W. NAYLOR,
Organist and Lederer of Emmanuel Graleee 49 Bateman Street, Cambridge.
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