What train of thought was it that led the indefatigable PERCY FITZGERALD to write, _The Story of Bradshaw's Guide_, which appears in one of the most striking wrappers that can be seen on a railway book-stall? How pleasant if we could obtain a real outside coat-pocket railway guide just this size. It is a pity that the Indefatigable and Percy-vering One did not apply to _Mr. Punch_ for permission to reprint the page of Bradshaw which appeared in _Mr. Punch's Bradshaw's Guide_, marvellously illustrated by BENNETT, many years ago. This _magnum opus in parvo_ is really interesting and amusing, but if there is one thing more than another which he who runs and reads desiderates of an author writing of time-tables and guides, it is accuracy. Now, in one particular instance, our PERCY is inaccurate. He writes: "Close on fifty years have passed by, and the guide with every year has continued, like _Mr. Stiggins_, to be a 'swellin' wisibly.'" The Brave Baron challenges PERCY to mortal combat on this issue, defying him to prove that _Mr. Stiggins_ was ever described within the limits of _Pickwick_, as "swellin' wisibly." Will the erudite biographer of _Bradshaw_ be surprised to learn, that, in the first place, the description "swellin' wisibly" was never applied to _Mr. Stiggins_ at all, but was used by _Mr. Weller_ senior, as illustrating the condition of a "young 'ooman on the next form but two" from where he was sitting, who had "drank nine breakfast cups and a half, and," he goes on to whisper to _Sam_, "_She's a swellin' wisibly before my wery eyes._" In the second place, the expression was employed at a time when _Mr. Stiggins_ was not present, but, in his official character, as "a deligate from the Dorking branch of our society, Brother _Stiggins_" was in attendance downstairs. With these two exceptions, one mistake of omission, and one of commission, the Baron confers his _imprimatur_ on the _Story of Bradshaw's Guide_, and recommends it to the public.