/T has been said, by whom I knoiv not, that " jwefaces 

 to books are like signs to public-houses ; they are 

 intended to give one an idea of the kind of enter- 

 tainment to be found within.'' But this preface is not to 

 be like those ; for it would require an essay in itself to 

 give a comprehensive idea of the Dover Road, in all its 

 implications. A road is not merely so many miles of 

 highway, more or less well-maintained. It is not only 

 sojnething in the surveyor's way ; but history as well. 

 It is life, touched at every point. 



The Dover Road — the highway between London and 

 that most significant of ajjproaches to the Continent of 



