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something in the nature of repetition will be found. 

 As just explained, however, the work of writing chapters 

 on the art of driving was committed to several hands. 

 If the various writers all agree in emphasising certain 

 points and rules, it will be understood that these are 

 matters upon which it seems desirable that emphasis 

 should be laid ; and it has been thought well, therefore, 

 to let the different contributors offer their advice and 

 experience in their own words. In the present volume 

 there will be found more anecdote and personal reminis- 

 cence than in the previous books, the reason being that 

 we have believed instruction and advice were thus con- 

 veyed in more interesting and agreeable fashion than if 

 a balder and more didactic style had been employed. 



My thanks are due to those who have so readily 

 come forward to assist me in the composition of this 

 volume ; to my old friend Lord Algernon St. Maur, 

 whose experience of bygone days cannot fail to enter- 

 tain all who are interested in driving ; to Lady 

 Georgiana Curzon, who speaks with authority as well 

 as lucidity on the subject of Tandem-driving ; to Lord 

 Onslow, for his practical chapter ; to Sir Christopher 

 Teesdale, for his amusing and graphic reminiscences ; 

 to Colonel H. Smith-Baillie, for the instructive summary 

 of the principles of coachmanship ; to Mr. G. N. Hooper, 

 for a treatise full of information ; and to the late 

 Major Dixon. 



BEAUFORT. 



