Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Engineers, Education, Charlatanry

    Responding to news that the 'science of engineering' can be bought for 'six guineas', argues that few will miss this opportunity of gaining a qualification for a profession paying 'two or three guineas a day'. Mocks the principle of a railway surveyor's education as, 'Measuring for Fun, made Engineering in Earnest'.