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Literary projects may be put in two classes. Some are like
steamers that go in a regulated course direct to their
destinations, while others tack here and there like sailing
ships, governed by a zigzag progress.
The subject of bridges belongs to this latter class. For
five-and-twenty years I have tried to order it into a
methodised hobby. As well try to teach a hive of honey-
bees never to visit certain flowers in a garden, and never
to fly beyond certain pathways and hedges. Yet a writer
cannot help rebelling when his chosen theme declines to
play in the game of authorship, and deviates from many
careful plans which are made for its benefit. Every chapter
in this book has been rewritten eight or ten times, yet my
sailing ship has not become an Atlantic liner.
My wish for a long time was to show the evolution of
bridges in about seven hundred photographic illustrations,
with eight lines of text under each print; and in
preparation for this work I collected materials, and
received invaluable help from other pontists, particularly
from Mr. Frank Brangwyn, Mr. H. T. Crofton, Mr. C. S.
Sargisson, Mr. Edgar Wigram, the Rev. O. M. Jackson, and
the Church Missionary Society. Pontist after pontist sent
me notes, photographs, sketches; and then Frank
Brangwyn suggested that we should work in collaboration.
Here was luck indeed! His pictures and drawings would be
the book of art; and the rambling subject, if it passed over
mere technique into the human drama, ought to interest
the general reader who does generally read. For bridges
have represented types of society, every change in their
development having been brought about by changes in
social needs.