...combatants. The action is the life and soul of a battle, the noise, the terrible clamor, the roar, the confusion, are all arts of a drama that loses its interest if it fails in one particular. Parrhasius wanted for his picture of Prometheus but a dying groan, and without this he felt that he had failed. Walker, the famous army artist, whose pencil, like a magician's wand, reproduces on canvas scen...