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says : — ' Accept my best thanks for the very handsome edition of 

 your work, which I found awaiting my arrival, at Ly sways, on 

 my return. This circumstance will explain why I have not sooner 

 acknowledged its receipt. I have not yet had time to make a 

 complete perusal of the book ; but, from what I have read, I am 

 convinced of the necessity of the object which you have in view, 

 and I will not fail to name it among my friends, hoping it may 

 meet with the success it merits. Allow me to congratulate you 

 on the admirable way in which it is got up and illustrated.' This 

 commendation strongly supports our view." 



The BRITISH MERCANTILE GAZETTE, London. 



" * Centaur ; or, The Turn Out.' By E. W. Gough, 

 M.E.S.P.C.A. This very handsome and thoroughly useful volume 

 reflects the highest credit alike on the head and heart of the 

 Author. The discrimination and thorough kno^vledge of his sub- 

 ject evinced by Mr. Gough is only equalled by the innate love 

 for that noble animal, the horse, which has led him to perform 

 the self-imposed task of compiling such a practical and instructive 

 treatise on all that relates to his equine friend. An excellent 

 portrait of the Author forms the frontispiece, and numerous other 

 highly executed illustrations also adorn the work, the chief aim 

 and object of which is to induce a treatment of the horse which 

 shall be based solely upon kindness and method ; the keynote of 

 all, which is struck in one of the early illustrations, represent- 

 ing a hand with corn placed under the horse's mouth, and 

 entitled 'Mutual Feeling.' It also contains valuable information 

 as to stable fittings, and practical hints respecting the harness- 

 room, coach-house, and general saddlery, as used at home and 

 abroad.' 



THE STABLE, London, 1st June, 188^, 



" Mr. GouciH's book is well known as about the best Horse 

 book as well as the undoubted original one, and we are induced to 

 refer to it now partly because a cheap and popular edition is being 

 brought out, and partly because on the occasion of our recent 

 trip to Walsall we fell in with the Author, and were promptly 

 assured from personal conversation that he ' knows about what he 

 writes.' Now-a-days this is not a common feature though it is 

 one of sterling merit, and if some of the impicdent pirates tvho have 

 copied Mr. Gough's title, stolen his ideas and ruined them in their 

 adaptation, and generally written heaps of nonsense about horses, 

 had a little of that quality, they would not have, mi<ilpd so many 



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