Excerpt from A Monograph on Wood Carving in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh This curious indifference serves its purpose, and it is best to indulge the workman to the top of his bent.' All over the East it is the same - 'farda' drawls the Cairene workman just as readily as his Indian brother says kal.' And when this apathy is overcome, there is another difficulty to be feared. Having become awake at last to the possibility of doing a fine trade in some class of work, the workmen turn out piece after piece in such a hurry to get money, that the articles - most of them copies of copies to begin with - have all the defects of the first copy gradually magnified, and the ornamentation grows so poor that the demand falls off, both character and technical merit being lost. 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.