156 HOKSE POETEAITUKE. 



lends its influence through money appropriations to the 

 advancement of the breed of horses. It is copied from 

 "The English at Home." 



" England produces three objects which are met with 

 everywhere, but which in this island are remarkable for 

 their marvelous beauty the women, the trees, and the 

 horses. Moreover, every place which raises a race of 

 horses worthy of admiration is also peopled by pretty 

 women. What is the cause of the coincidence is not easy 

 to say; but this strange correlation is not the less real. 

 Georgia rears the best horses of the East. The plains of 

 La Camerque in the neighborhood of Aries, famous for 

 its lovely girls, preserves the blood of the Moorish coursers 

 in a state of nature. The Anclalusian maid attains her 

 perfection of form by the side of the most symmetrical 

 steeds of the Peninsula. At Mecklenburg you behold the 

 purest blood of Germany; and when a phalanx of Amazons 

 gallops along the avenues of the London parks, the daz- 

 zled eye cannot fix itself with indifference either on the 

 ecuyere or the animal on which she is mounted. Let it 

 young girl draw up her horse under a lofty tree, and you 

 will contemplate, grouped in a single picture, the three 

 marvels of England." 



The comparison will hold good in our own country, as 

 will be readily admitted by those who are familiar with 

 the beauty of the females in those regions most remark- 

 able for fine horses. I will not try any more than the 

 author above quoted to account for the parallel. It is 

 very true that the beauty of the thoroughbred is nearly 

 akin to the highest type of female loveliness. The flowing- 

 lines made up of curves identical with Hogarth's line of 

 grace and beauty; the highbred look, the lustrous eye, the 

 silken, glossy hair, the grace of movement, the pliability 

 of limb, and the rounded form free from all grossness. 

 Hang up a picture of the Venus de Medici, by the side 



