Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
318
The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
314
PRINTED
BY
NEILL
AND
COMPANY,
EDINBURGH.
THE
ROYAL
MAIL:
ITS
CURIOSITIES
AND
ROMANCE.
BY
JAMES
WILSON
HYDE,
SUPERINTENDENT
IN
THE
GENERAL
POST-OFFICE,
EDINBURGH.
OPINIONS
OF
THE
PRESS.
=The
Times.=--"The
author
of
'The
Royal
Mail'
has
served
five-and-twenty
years
in
the
Post-office,
and
had
it
been
his
fortune
to
turn
novelist,
like
his
confrere
Anthony
Trollope,
he
would
never
have
been
so
lavish
of
invaluable
materials.
The
merest
glance
through
his
pages
might
suggest
subjects
or
incidents
for
half
a
score
of
sensational
romances.
But
the
whole
of
the
volume
is
so
full
of
fascination
that
once
taken
up
it
is
difficult
to
lay
it
down."
=Saturday
Review.=--'Mr
Hyde's
work
certainly
shows
that,
even
at
the
present
time,
the
business
conducted
by
the
Post-office
is
not
unfrequently
enlivened
by
romantic
incidents;
while
in
antiquarian
interest
it
is
rich
beyond
the
average."
=Pall
Mall
Gazette.=--"This
volume
is
a
storehouse
of
amusing
anecdotes."
=The
Echo.=--"The
curiosities
and
romance
of
the
Post-office
have
furnished
Mr
J.
Wilson
Hyde,
Superintendent
in
the
General
Post-office,
Edinburgh,
with
a
subject
for
one
of
the
most
entertaining
books
of
the
year.
The
book
is
well
written,
well
arranged,
and
thoroughly
deserves
success."
=Graphic.=--"Contains
a
vast
number
of
well-arranged
facts,
some
valuable,
some
curious,
about
what
is
pre-eminently
'the
people's
institution.'"
=St
James's
Gazette.=--"The
result
is
a
work
that
is
sure
to
be
widely
read.
The
author
treats
of
the
old
coaching
days
in
a
cheery
spirit;
and
if
some
of
his
excellent
anecdotes
lack
the
gloss
of
novelty,
that
was
only
to
be
expected.
But
by
far
the
most
interesting
pages
in
his
interesting
book
are
those
in
which
he
deals
with
the
working
of
the
present
system....
An
extremely
readable
and
meritorious
book."
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
