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play of coaches will satisfy any one that coaching has 

 not yet become a thing altogether of the past. 



The Four-in-Hand Club is now in better form than 

 ever ; the Committee, in 1878, consisted of the Duke 

 of Beaufort, the Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of 

 Londonderry, the Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Maccles- 

 field, Lord Londesborough, Lord Wenlock, and Lord 

 Aveland. The Duke of Beaufort is the President ; 

 there were over fifty members, amongst whom the 

 following names may be mentioned : Colonel Dickson, 

 Sir Henry Tufton, Sir Henry Meysey-Thompson, 

 the Marquis of Waterford, Sir T. Peyton, Lord 

 Abingdon, Lord Haldon, Count Munster, Mr. Adrian 

 Hope, General Owen Williams, the Earl of Bective, 

 Lord Charles Beresford, the Marquis of Blandford, 

 Mr. Henry Chaplin, Lord Cole, the Earl of Craven, 

 Mr. W. G. Craven, Mr. Eaton, Lord Hemsley, Sir 

 John Lister Kaye, Lord Macduff, Lord Muncaster, 

 Sir Roger Palmer, Sir George Wombwell, the Marquis 

 of Worcester, and Mr. C. Birch Reynardson, the author 

 of an amusing book called " Down the Road," which 

 was lately published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. 



The Four-in-Hand Club generally meets in Hyde 

 Park twice during the season, and drives to some place 

 out of town, where the members and their friends dine, 

 and return late in the evening. I have witnessed a 

 great many meets of the Four-in-Hand Club at the 

 Magazine in Hyde Park, but I do not intend to 

 enumerate them all, or to attempt to describe the 

 appearance of the various coaches and their teams, 

 since the correspondents of the various sporting papers 

 are so active in this particular branch of literature, 

 except to say that both the coaches and horses belong- 

 ing to the Four-in-Hand Club are well turned out, and 



