The Horse: Its Keep and Management (By William Cook). 

 This volume has the very great merit (and it must be added 

 the corresponding defect) tnat it represents only the opinion of 

 one man. Still he is an intelligent observer of the horse in its 

 work and in its stable. There are many much more compre- 

 hensive volumes on the horse, and books in which the whole 

 subject is more exhaustively treated ; but Mr. Cook tells what 

 he believes himself to have learned by his own experience, 

 and his experience really has been considerable. We do not 

 say a man's experience let his life be ever so long and his field 

 of observation be ever so wide can tell him all that ought to 

 be known in order to discuss thoroughly any subject. Bufc no 

 amount of reading on such a question as this of how to keep a 

 horse, can compensate for the want of experience. The chapters 

 which tell of feeding and stable-management are % full of useful 

 hints to the owner of one horse. The other chapters are more 

 ambitious and less successful. But even the first chapters alone 

 are very good value for half-a-crown to those who for the first 

 time are about to start a horse and trap of their own. Mr. 

 Cook never leaves one in doubt as to what his meaning is. 

 His advice is lucid enough. Live Stock Journal, August 28th, 

 1891. 



The Horse: Its Keep and Management, by Mr. William 

 Cook, is a sensible and practical little book, the result of con- 

 siderable observation and experience. It may be taken as a 

 guide by all those whose acquaintance with the subject is 

 limited, while many claiming special knowledge will find 

 numerous hints and suggestions, the adoption of which would 

 prove profitable to them and beneficial to their horses. The 

 horse is naturally intelligent and docile, though playful and 

 spirited, and responds readily to kindness, by the agency of 

 which he can generally be made to obey his master's wishes 

 without having recourse to punishments which injure his 

 temper and his nerves. The burden of the book is to be gentle 

 and patient, to treat a young horse much as you would a 

 child, and when you do punish to be influenced by reason, and 

 not by temper. Mr. Cook, of Orpington, is himself the publisher 

 of the manual. Morning Post, September 2nd, 1891. 



The Horse : Its Keep and Management. The author of this 

 work (Mr. Wm. Cook) needs no introduction to Poultry keepers, 

 but perhaps some may fancy that it is a big leap from Poultry 

 keeping to the horse and its management ; nevertheless we can 

 assure readers that such is not the case here, as Mr. Cook has 

 been amongst horses all his life, and is as thoroughly acquainted 

 with them as with Poultry. The work in question does not 

 attempt to deal in any scientific manner with the question. It 

 simply deals with the practical management in such a way as 

 will enable the most inexperienced to find in it plain and 

 practical hints. The subjects, amongst others, dealt with include 



