translator's preface. H 



Baucher's method has been reprinted in Belgium and 

 translated into Dutch and German. In the latter lan- 

 guage, several different translations have been written, 

 one by M. Ritgen, Lieutenant of the Fourth Regiment of 

 Iloulans (Prussian), and the other by M. de Willisen, 

 Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh Cuirassiers (Prussian). 



The translator will give some extracts from the pre- 

 face to M. de Willisen's translation, as it shows that 

 some of the difficulties met with by the former were not 

 altogether escaped by his German confrere. 



"After the most positive results had proved to me 

 most convincingly that, of all existing methods, that of M. 

 Baucher was the best, I thought that it would be useful to 

 translate it. This translation seemed at first much easier 

 than it proved in the sequel ; above all, it was actually 

 impossible for me to render in German, as I wished, such 

 technical French expressions as attaques, accidement^ 

 assoiqylissement^ ramnener^ r assembler^ etc., retaining 

 their clearness and conciseness. In German I could 

 only find expressions that were incomplete. On this 

 account I have put all the words for which I could 

 not find a clear equivalent in German in the original 

 French. 



" Horses may be broken wnth much success upon other 

 principles — they have been broken before M. Baucher's 

 time — but no work has thrown so much light upon horse 

 education ; no other method has taught such simple and 

 sure means, nor presented a like result with certainty. 

 lie who would ride with safety and satisfaction, ought to 

 be completely master of an obedient and correct horse. 

 To obtain this result, M. Baucher gives the surest means 

 and points out the shortest road: 



" The exact knowledge of the obstacles that the horse 

 presents to dispose him to obey easily ; the simple man- 



