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the best distinctions between the hand gallop and the extended stride of the 

 faster pace. The French writers distinguish between the two by asserting 

 that in the hand gallop there are three beats, while in the flying gallop two 

 only are performed ; but in practice there is no such variation. 



In Stillman's Horse in Motion the hand gallop is ignored altogether, 

 although Muybridge employed a range of twenty-four cameras and spent 

 years in the production of thousands of photographs. Captain Hayes 

 {Points of the Horse) distinguishes between a " typical canter " and a 

 " smooth style of canter, which might be termed (to use a popular expres- 

 sion) a hand gallop." 



THE GALLOP 



There are still many artists who regret the introduction of instantaneous 

 photography, and regard the discovery as revealing ugliness instead of 

 beauty. Mr. Stanford, who is responsible for the revolution, said, " a revela- 

 tion so startling as that made by the camera carried results too far-reaching 

 and revolutionary to be at once accepted, though it came direct from heaven. 

 There is too much capital invested in works of art all over the world to 



RECEIVED INTERPRETATION OF THE GALLOP. 



permit the innovation without protest, and ridicule is the cheapest argument 

 that can be employed in controversy, for it does not require truth for its 

 foundation, and but a low order of talent for its display." Since these 

 words were written by Mr. Stanford, who must have spent many hundreds 

 of pounds in experiment, truth has prevailed. 



The great work from which the above paragraph is quoted, is not so well 

 known in England as it deserves to be. Marie and others on the Continent 

 have amply confirmed the American's discovery, and Captain Hayes has 

 made the subject well understood in his own clear and concise manner in 

 Points of the Horse, which he has illustrated very fully. 



The gallop, or, as Stillman prefers to call it, the run, is a pace of four- 

 time, in which the feet follow one another successively, allowing an interval 

 in which the leading fore-foot touches ground and then that of the opposite 

 hind one. In the canter it is not so, the front diagonal support touches the 



