]f REFUGE 



MANY years ago it occurred to this writer that it 

 would bean interesting thing to write and illustrate 

 a book on the Road to Brighton. The genesis of that 

 thought has been forgotten, but the book zvas written and 

 published, and has long been out of print. And there 

 might have been the end of it, but that(from no preconceived 

 plan) there has since been added a long series of books on 

 others of our great highways, rendering imperative 

 re-issues of the parent volume. 



Two considerations have made that undertaking a 

 matter of considerable difficulty, either of them sufficiently 

 weighty. The first was that the original book was written 



