"ILLUSTRATED STABLE MAXIMS." Ill 



subject. The lecture was delivered in all parts of the 

 kingdom, as well as in America ; in some cases as at 

 Bristol before an audience composed almost entirely 

 of those whom it was specially necessary to influence. 

 Shoes actually taken from the feet of horses were 

 exhibited, together with specimens of hoofs, both shod 

 and unshod. The anatomy of the animal was carefully 

 explained, and illustrated by many drawings in coloured 

 chalks upon the great black canvas. And, with regard 

 to the literary part of the task which he had set him- 

 self, almost the very last magazine articles which my 

 father wrote were a series, upon the popular errors of 

 horse management and treatment, for the Leisure Hour, 

 which are appearing in that periodical at the time of 

 writing these lines. 



In another way, also, he strove to disseminate the 

 leading principles of the new teaching ; namely, by the 

 production of a large coloured chart entitled " Illustrated 

 Stable Maxims," showing by means of coloured diagrams 

 some of the anatomical peculiarities of the horse's body, 

 and intended to be hung in stables for the benefit of 

 grooms and coachmen. The sheet also contains short 

 " Instructions " upon the Structure of the Hoof, Feed- 

 ing, Watering, Air, the Bearing-rein, Blinkers, and 

 Stable Medicines, and forms, in fact, in the briefest 

 possible form, a kind of epitome of the book. 



Almost as soon as " Horse and Man '' had been 

 placed in the printer's hands, my father set to work 

 upon another book for the Society for Promoting 

 Christian Knowledge : a more important one than its 



