Related article: the Hurlingham, which are in
force in the United Kingdom, on
the Continent and in Argentina
and California, the Indian and
American rules. The compiler of
the table has judiciously ignored
the strict order of the Indian and
American codes, having set out
the various rules in such wise
that they may appear opposite
the Hurlingham rule of similar
purport. The plan is an excellent
one, enabling the reader to easily
compare Purchase Esomeprazole the several rules in each
code. The important alterations
which were made a few weeks
ago in the rules of the County
Polo Association are not recorded
in the book which appeared
almost on the day upon which
those changes were made. This
is a pity, but we cannot look for
perfection in this imperfect
world.
Another edition which will be
cordially welcomed by all sports-
men and naturalists is the third
issue of Mr. Rowland Ward's
" Records of Big Game." J This
monument of industry and labour
is now nearly twice the size of
the first edition, and owes some-
thing of its increased bulk to the
wise inclusion of a brief descrip-
tive account of each animal.
Very numerous are the new re-
cords of horn, antler and skin;
and we welcome the addition of
some more authentic weights of
the tiger and lion. Infinite care
in preparing these masses of
figures is displayed, and the book,
with its admirable plates, is more
than ever entitled to rank as
indispensable to the sportsman's
library.
t "Records of Big Game." Third Edition.
Rowland Ward, Ltd.
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A Coaching Chapter.
The death of the Duke of Beau-
fort removes from the road one
of its best-known figures, one of
the most skilful coachmen, and
one of the earliest patrons of
revived coaching. The late Duke's
recollections carried him back —
he was born in 1824 — to the pre-
railroad days ; but by the time he
was old enough to take hold of a
team the train had begun to be
a formidable opponent to stage-
coaches. The Duke's early les-
sons were learned under the
tuition of his father, the seventh
holder of the title, himself a fine
coachman. In the Driving
Volume of the Badminton Library
the Duke of Beaufort relates that
old Goodman, the proprietor of the
Brighton Times coaches, would not
allow his father to drive, so by
way of retaliation he betook him-
self to the establishment of Israel
Alexander, who had a large yard
in the Borough, and in addition
to driving one of the Brighton
coaches, did a large business in
horsing them. It was quickly
arranged that Generic Esomeprazole a new coach should
be started in opposition to the
Times, and this took the form
of the Wonder, which started
at the same time as Goodman's
seven o'clock Times, while the
Quicksilver was arranged to run
in the same interest against the
four o'clock Times. A fortnight
later the Quicksilver turned over
in Brighton when driven by
young John Snow, a booking-
clerk in the office, and son of Snow,
the coachman. This accident
caused the coach to be changed
in colour, and to come out under
the name of the Criterion ; but
the coach was Purchase Esomeprazole Online unfortunate, as
only about three months later the
pole broke in London, the
Criterion capsized near the Ele-
phant and Castle, and Sir William
Cos way was killed.
The late Duke of Beaufort,
however, was not more than about
ten years old at that time, so he
had no share in the driving of the
Wonder, Quicksilver or Criterion
coaches; but subsequently, be
himself says, the York House
Bath coach, James Adlam being
the professional, was the first
public conveyance he ever drove,
and later on he was virtually pro-
prietor of the Age, put on by
Clark in succession to James
Adlam. In the Driving Volume
of the Badminton Library is an
amusing account of his taking
the coach to Brighton after a
protest on the part of the box-
seat passenger against being driven
by a young man.
On the foundation of the Four-
in-Hand Driving Club at the
conclusion of the Crimean War,
the Duke was an original mem-
ber, and for some time he turned
out regularly with the Club ; but it
must be more than ten years since
the Badminton drag has been
seen at the Club meets. After
the F.H.D.C. had been founded
about ten years, the late Dukes
fondness for stage-coaching re-
vived, and he was one of the little
band who started the Old Times
to Brighton in 1866, while in the
next year he and his colleagues
doubled the coach ; but after a
year or two he severed his con-
nection with the road, and con-
tented himself with attending the
gatherings of the Driving Clubs,
becoming in 1870 President of
the newly formed Coaching Club.
Since the Duke of Beaufort left it,
the Brighton road has been in the
hands of several proprietors, and
this year it has recovered some of
its old prestige, though for the
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first time in its modern history
the two coaches are in the hands
of different proprietors, Captains
Spicer and Hamilton being re-
sponsible for the Nimrod, while
Captain Steeds, of Dublin, runs
the Comet, retaining a name long
connected with the Brighton road,
not only in ancient days, but in
later times under Mr. Stewart
Freeman, and after him under
Mr. Woodland.
So far as the general public are
concerned, the interest in the
road would appear to be dying
out, the facilities for railway
travel and the bicycle being doubt-
less contributing causes. At any
rate, during the last few years
passengers have not been so very
numerous, but it remains to be
seen what the present season will
bring forth. Both the Brighton
coaches are excellently horsed,
and the piebalds and skewbalds
in the Nimrod and the superla-
tive hunters in the Comet are
worthy of all admiration. The
old coaches, with the exception
of the Excelsior, are on the road
again, and there are one or two
new undertakings, while one of
the features of the season is the
increase in the number of coaches
which are run by private indi-
viduals. The Guildford road, so
long held in such capital style by
Mr. Walter Shoolbred, has now,
after being occupied by Mr.
Harveyson for one season, and
by the Messrs. Cook Order Esomeprazole Online for one