THE BATH ROAD 79 



Bath Road, a review which pretends only to deal with 

 its more salient features, with an excerpt more suggestive 

 than this. What perils does it not breathe of by flood 

 and field — perils due to increased confidence and a 

 reckless acceleration of pace. And acceleration of pace 

 was not the only sign on the time-bill of increased 

 recklessness. The lapse of a century had marked a 

 departure in advertisement. The coach proprietors in 

 Charles the Second's time did, it will be remembered, in 

 assuring the public that their flying machines would 

 reach Bath from London in three days, add a proviso 

 which committed the safety of their passengers to 

 Providence. The coach proprietors of George the 

 Third's time however, in assuring the public that their 

 machines would reach London from Bath in two days 

 only, appear to have forgotten this formality. 



