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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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=Manchester
Examiner
and
Times.=--"'The
Royal
Mail'
is
singularly
interesting.
The
writer
has
unearthed
from
ancient
documents,
old
newspapers,
and
official
reports,
a
curious
collection
of
incidents
and
facts
which
give
a
vivid
idea
of
the
difficulties
of
the
postal
service
in
its
youth,
and
of
the
immense
improvements
which
have
been
made
in
recent
years.
The
book
is
both
entertaining
and
instructive.
The
reader
will
find
a
good
deal
that
is
strange
and
even
romantic
in
the
account."
=Quiz.=--"A
delightful
book,
by
the
Superintendent
of
the
Edinburgh
General
Post-office....
A
book,
full
of
contemporary
curiosities
and
old-world
romances,
which,
while
it
gives
an
entertaining
account
of
the
inner
workings
of
the
Post-office
of
to-day,
transports
you
to
the
grand
idyllic
epoch
of
sleepy
Britain,
the
times
of
pack-horses
and
postboys,
of
wayside
inns
and
county
hostelries,
of
masked
cavaliers,
and
great
snows
and
impracticable
roads.
A
glance
at
the
contents
of
Mr
Hyde's
volume
is
sufficient
to
indicate
the
extent
and
variety
of
the
materials
he
has
gathered
together."
=Birmingham
Daily
Mail.=--"A
book
which
may
be
looked
upon
in
the
light
of
a
historical
work....
Its
aim,
while
historic,
seems
to
be
to
deal
with
the
lighter
features
of
the
great
department
of
the
State,
the
Post-office.
'The
Royal
Mail'
...
will
be
found
very
entertaining,
and
sometimes
very
strange
and
romantic
reading."
=Practical
Teacher.=--"A
book
which,
albeit
not
a
novel,
has
all
the
charm
and
interest
of
the
most
exciting
romance.
Altogether
it
would
be
difficult
to
speak
too
highly
of
Mr
Hyde's
delightful
volume."
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