IV Preface. 



as I have been frequently urged by many, both at home 

 and abroad, to pubh'sh in one volume certain essays and 

 reviews on the subject of horses, which have appeared at 

 different times in various magazines and papers. 



There have been also frequent demands for the re- 

 production, in a separate volume, of the ' Successional 

 and Historic Review of the English Racer from 1689 to 

 the Present Time,' to which, it was requested, tables of 

 pedigrees might be added ; but I was unwilling that 

 should appear unless accompanied by the history of 

 the Arabian horse, for ' as in geography we can have 

 no just idea of the situation of one country without 

 knowing that of others, so in history, it is in some 

 measure necessary to be acquainted with the whole to 

 comprehend a part.' So, rather than reproduce a number 

 of letters and papers, in which there would be to some 

 extent a want of connection, and necessarily a repetition, 

 I have chosen to write a fresh work giving a history of 

 the Arabian, a knowledge of which is indispensable to a 

 thorough appreciation of the history of the English horse, 

 and in which the whole subject has been enlarged and 

 more fully discussed. 



It may perhaps surprise some to find the ' English 

 Uhlan ' to be one and the same with the author of the 

 * Successional and Historic Review of the English Racer,' 

 whose letters in support of Arabian blood appeared about 

 the same time, and although they were not recognised 



