THE GREEK RIDING-HORSE. 



XENOPHON'S " Treatise on Horseman- 

 ship " is the oldest extant work on the 

 subject in any language, and the only one 

 which has come down to us in either Greek 

 or Latin. That the author was well entitled 

 to begin it as he does, will be granted by 

 every reader of his masterpiece, the Anaba- 

 sis. But though in the ill-fated expedition 

 which that book describes, he travelled 

 nearly three thousand miles, generally on 

 horseback, yet this journey occupied only a 

 little more than a year of his life ; and prob- 



