The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance

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."