Author: Tresham Gilbey

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-04

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780267767823

Excerpt from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, 1878, Vol. 31 An ambassador on a coach-box would, twenty years ago or less, have been considered in an anomalous position. We had very few coachmen ourselves then, and those there were hid their lights under bushels. With the rather contemptuous Opinion that English men used to entertain of the Sporting tastes and pursuits of all foreigners, we should have scouted the idea that a German could drive. But the world has marched with wonderful strides in twenty years, and in the development of Sport in all its branches conti nental nations, especially France and Germany, have shown a remarkable proficiency. Racing, hunting, driving, are no longer the gift and heritage of Englishmen alone, and if imitation is the sincerest flattery we ought to be a proud people indeed. Count Munster is a Sportsman in his own country, and his love of coaching we need scarcely dwell upon here. No meet of the four-in-hand Club would be complete without His Excellency driving his well known chestnuts with the Countess Olga by his side. Eminently popular in English society, his liking for a good old English pastime is an additional claim to the kindly feeling with which he is regarded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.