Preface. ix, 



written. It would be absurd, for instance, to place 

 Xenophon after Juliana Barnes, or Gwyllame Twici after 

 Bracy Clark. The same work is only again mentioned 

 when it has been entirely recast, or a new compilation is 

 made, such as the Rei rusticcB scriptores. In the alphabetical 

 arrangement of names, I have had to meet the usual difficulty 

 of foreign double names, such as : — Esprit Paul de la Font 

 Pouloti, Franz Max Freiherr von Bouwinghausen von 

 Wallmerode, Francisco de Cespedes y Velasco, etc. In 

 such cases I have endeavoured to follow the custom as near 

 as may be, of the double-named one's country. 



Under " Horses and Equitation," I have included every- 

 thing appertaining to the Horse. Fiction is excluded, and 

 generally all books of which only a part relates to horses ; 

 but here again are exceptions, such as Montaigne's Essays, 

 Beckmann's Inventions, and Reynold's Medicine. Indeed 

 the nearer any class of book comes to the boundary line, 

 the less perfect does the Index naturally become, and the 

 more numerous the exceptions to the general rules I have 

 endeavoured to observe. Books on Farming, Natural 

 History and the like are therefore far from being com- 

 pletely represented ; it is the same with Sporting papers ; 

 while fiction is allowed occasionally to creep in, as in the 

 Dialogue betwixt a Warre Horse and a Mill Horse, which 

 though really a Civil War Tract, yet the characters talk as 

 horses, there is a cut of horses on the title, and we are 

 informed (Sig. A 3) that a horse's skin was then worth ten 

 groats. There is a little better excuse for the Coach and 



