INTRODUCTION 3 



that others will be saved some of the time this 

 Index has taken me in preparation. 



(Signed) " Frederick H. Huth." 



" Beckford House, 

 Lansdown Crescent, Bath." 



What chiefly interests the ordinary reader of 

 horsey literature is the value of all this research 

 when applied to his own case. Let us take any 

 page haphazard and see what Huth imparts. 

 Page 302 of his invaluable work may do just 

 as well as any other. From it we gather that 

 in 1883 were published the following books on 

 this subject : — 



Das strategische Kavallerie Manover tinier 

 General Gurko im siidlichen Russland Herbot, 

 1882, tmd die Reformbestiebungen in der r2is- 

 sischen Kavellerie, by A. V. Drygalski, 8vo, 

 Berlin, 1883; L'Asino nella leggenda e nella 

 litteratura, &c., by Giuseppe Finzi, 8vo, Turin, 

 1883. 



Merely the names of authors would form quite 

 a book to itself, apart from the commentaries 

 which take up the bulk of Mr. Huth's work. 

 But what we are concerned with is the value 

 of the various books which have been so care- 

 fully indexed. Are they a// worth reading ? 

 Surely a few are inaccurate ! Let us draw 

 attention to some and endeavour to extract the 

 practical parts, and, if this long dynasty of 

 authors have omitted anything, let us endeavour 

 to substitute remarks drawn from experience. 



It would have been ungrateful to Huth, and 



