The Illustrations. 13 



better training of saddle beasts is given, all that 

 these pages deserve will have been gained. 



The plates are phototype reproductions from 

 photographs of Patroclus, taken in action by 

 Baldwin Coolidge. Their origin lay in the belief 

 that a fine-gaited horse could be instantaneously 

 photographed, and still show the agreeable ac- 

 tion which all horse-lovers admire, and have been 

 habituated to see drawn by artists, instead of 

 the ungainly positions usually resulting from the 

 instantaneous process. The object aimed at — to 

 show an anatomically correct and artistically ac- 

 ceptable horse in each case — has, it is thought, 

 been gained, so far, at least, as motion arrested 

 can ever give the idea of motion. 



Out of thirty photographs taken, the fourteen 

 herein given, and one or two others, much resem- 

 bling some of these, showed an agreeable action. 

 The best positions of the horse were often the 

 poorest photographs. In enlarging them by solar 

 prints for the phototype process, the shadows of 

 the horse have been darkened, or in some in- 

 stances, where a negative has been blurred or 

 injured, an indistinct line has been strengthened. 

 In some plates the photograph was so clear (as 

 Plates IV. and V.) that no darkening of the shad- 

 ows was necessary. In others (as Plates VII. and 

 VIII.) the negative, though showing excellent 

 position, was so weak as to require a good deal of 



