Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. By W. Outram Tristram. With
Illustrations by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson.
(Macmillan.)—This very handsome volume is a reprint of articles
which appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine. We may repeat with emphasis the praise already bestowed in previous
notices of the magazine. The literary part of the book is as lively and pleasant as one could desire (the writer takes the seven great roads to Bath, Exeter, Portsmouth, Brighten, Dover, York, and Holyhead, in the order here given), while the illustrations are admirable, and as good as they are plentiful. We may notice, by- the-way, a very damaging criticism on Mr. Hubert Hall's attempted vindication of "Wild Darrell," a vindication of the conclusiveness of which we at the time expressed our grave doubts. One more note. "Behind an oak-tree which still stands opposite the Green Man' at the junction of the York and Holyhead roads, the im- mortal Dick Turpin used to sit silent on his mare." So writes Mr. Tristram. The 'Green Man' is still there, though fallen from its high estate, but the oak is gone.
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