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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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=Whitehall
Review.=--"'The
Royal
Mail'
is
not
a
book
to
be
put
down
unfinished,
for
what
is
told
in
it
is
well
worth
knowing,
and
the
admirable
way
it
is
related
makes
it
all
the
more
enjoyable."
=The
Literary
World.=--"This
book
is
free
from
the
least
suspicion
of
dulness,
and
is
replete
with
the
liveliest
anecdotes
we
have
seen
for
many
a
day.
There
is
a
good
story
on
almost
every
page."
=Daily
News.=--"A
book
which
is
an
interesting
addition
to
Post-office
literature,
and
it
will
be
read
with
pleasure
by
thousands
who
know
nothing
of
the
internal
working
of
the
postal
service."
=Scotsman.=--"A
book
of
singular
interest,
and
excellence....
The
carelessness
with
which
in
some
cases
the
mails
were
conveyed,
the
means
taken
to
preserve
them
from
robbers,
the
length
of
time
occupied
in
their
transmission
from
one
place
to
another,
the
difficulty
in
dealing
with
particular
portions
of
them,--all
these
are
described
in
the
earlier
chapters
of
Mr
Hyde's
book,
and
are
described
with
singular
power
and
ease
of
narrative.
The
book,
in
short,
is
far
more
interesting
than
most
of
the
modern
novels,
and
it
will
enable
the
country
to
understand
better
than
it
could
otherwise
understand
the
vast
and
complicated
machinery
by
which
one
of
the
most
ordinary
and
yet
imperative
requirements
of
modern
life
is
carried
out.
Mr
Hyde
must
have
hearty
commendation
for
the
manner
in
which
he
has
done
his
work."
=Glasgow
Weekly
Citizen.=--"Positively
the
most
interesting
book
I
have
seen
for
an
age.
It
is
certain
to
have
an
immediate
and
very
wide
popularity.
It
reads
like
a
novel,
and
shows
in
many
cases
how
true
is
the
old
maxim,
that
'Truth
is
stranger
than
fiction.'
To
everybody
this
volume
will
be
of
the
greatest
interest.
And
many
subjects
of
great
and
universal
interest
are
treated
in
the
most
lively
and
entertaining
manner.
The
volume
abounds
in
capital
stories."
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