Kitap Tanıtım Yazısı : 
 “The substance of the following pages was written se¬veral months since, and subsequently sent to the Ins¬titution of Civil Engineers, where it was read in abst¬ract on the 16th of February in the present session. While our Engineering Literature contains several valu¬Thable Treatises on the Theory and Construction of the Loco¬motive Engine, it has, as yet, produced no work illustrating Thits Use. This circumstance, added to the recommendation of several competent authorities, has induced the writer to app¬ly to the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers for per¬mission to lay before the public these Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine, drawn up from indivi¬dual experience, in the hope that they may be acceptable, at a ffperiod when any subject connected with the efficiency and safety of Railway travelling is deservedly engaging attention. At the end of the Paper will be found some Regulati¬ons for the first appointment of Engine-men, adopted by the Directors of the London and Croydon Railway, and fra¬ffmed by the writer in his official capacity as their Resident Engineer. Also, a Table of Railway Velocities, indicated by the time occupied in passing over given distances, which he has frequently found to save him the trouble of calculati¬on, and which he hopes may be similarly useful to others.”