Chapter I: Preface: To the Second Edition

THE favourable reception given by the press and the public to the first edition of “Hints on Driving,” which has run out in a little over three months, gives me hopes that a reprint of it will also be acceptable.

For this edition the sheets have been carefully revised throughout, and some additions have been made, many of which have been suggested to me during a short period of service in India. Several new illustrations have also been added.

General Albert Williams, who has kindly interested himself in this work, has given me permission to insert the following letter:

“MY DEAR MORLEY KNIGHT,

“I have heard with pleasure that a second edition of your book on
Driving is about to be published, and feel sure that it will be as
well appreciated as the first has been. The book is full of valuable
information most useful to beginners, and many professed coachmen
might read it with advantage. The latter, like doctors, differ on
many points, but I feel sure all good coachmen will be glad to know
that your endeavours to instruct in the art of Driving have been so
well received, and will welcome the new edition, the success of
which I shall look forward to with confidence.

“Yours very truly,

“ALBERT H. WILLIAMS.”

I have also to thank His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., for his kindly advice, and the numerous hints and corrections which I have endeavoured to incorporate in this volume.

C. M. K.

_Nov., 1894._

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