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Steam having surpassed liorse-power, driving lias 

 ceased to be a profession ; and with nothing to engage 

 the attention of the amateur, or to invite his imitation, 

 both tutor and pupil, original and copy, have, as our 

 senators would say, pari imssu, disappeared. 



Some weak attempt may be, indeed has been made 

 to prolong or revive the love for this national pastime 

 and display; but even should the present amateurs 

 succeed in forming a new societ}^ or club, we may look in 

 vain for such glorious specimens of the four-in-hand as 

 we have seen, or for that skill in driving four horses that 

 a perfect knowledge of the rudiments alone can give ; 

 and where are those rudiments to be taught or learnt but 

 in a school that is now no more ? As well may we attempt 

 to revive the study of grammar or rhetoric in Athens or 

 Rhodes without an Apollodorus, as endeavour to resus- 

 citate the art of driving in this Island without a Jack 

 Moody.^ Consequently, all knowledge of it will pass 

 away, or it will be recognized only in the records of poets 

 or historians, like the chariot of Achilles or the dress of 

 Nero. 



It would be almost a folly here to enter into a dis- 

 sertation upon an art that is nearly obsolete, and bids 

 fair to become as much lost to future generations as is 

 that of training lions to cars, or any other such practices 

 of the ancients. But if it should be asked what is meant 

 by rudiments, the reply is-— a proper understanding of 

 the nature of the mouth and temper of the animal, as 

 well as a correct knowledge of the means by which he can 



^ The name of two celebrated practitioners on the Windsor road, 

 father and son. 



