PREFACB TO SECOND EDITION. 



This is a NiiW EnrrroN, and something more. The first, issued in monthly parts, was completed 

 in 1875. Ever since, the Author has been engaged in improving and revising it. 



The subjects have been re-arranged on a plan at once more practical and scientific. 



All matter of temporary and merely local interest has been cancelled ; the object being to 

 make the " Book of the Horse " a work of permanent value. Several chapters have been re- 

 written^ the others rc-arraaged and condensed. 



In this revision the Author has had the advantage of valuable comnuinications from his 

 readers, not only in this country, but in France, Austria, and Italy, South America, and Australia. 

 He has availed himself of gems of horse lore to be found in the recent works of such travellers 

 as Major Burnaby, Baker Pasha, Mrs. Burton. Paragraphs of interest have been quoted from 

 the letters of the war correspondents of the Times and the Daily News. He has particularly 

 to acknowledge his obligations to the Honourable Francis Lawley for his revision of the chapters 

 on Race-horses and Racing, to Dr. Hurman of the Badminton Club, and Mr. Stewart F'reeman 

 of St. Martin's Lane, for correcting and adding to the chapter on " Four Horse Driving," and 

 the details of " Road Coaching." 



The late Mr. William Cooper, of Stoke Damerel, when judge at the Islington Horse 

 Show, also gave him some valuable hints, and kindly promised to read the proofs of the 

 pages of this edition referring to the subjects of which he was so thoroughly a master. 

 His untimely death took place before the Coaching chapter had been reached. 



The first chapters contain a history and description of the various breeds of British and 

 Foreign Horses. The succeeding chapters include the following subjects : — HoRSES OF VARIOUS 

 Breeds — Information for Purchase of English Horses, i.e., Ponies, Cob.s, Hacks, 

 Harness Steppers — Horsemanship for Children and Adult.s — Saddles and Bridles 

 — Hints for Amazons — The Art of Driving, Including Four-in-hand and Road 

 Coach Expenses — Hunting, in One Hundred Pages, with every Detail, Historical, 

 Biographical, Poetical, Pictorial — Estimate of Expenses of a Cakri.xge and 

 Horses — Stables, Coach-houses, Fodder, and Servant,s — Modern Carriages De- 

 scribed — Breeding, Breaking, Training — Shoes and Shoeing — Veterinary Infor- 

 mation, BY Professor \Vii,i,i.\m Pritchard. 



