Mr J. H. Oswald Brown. 



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a warm interest in what I told them about the ' shape and 

 make' of horses. In these lectures I was greatly helped 

 by having a few horse photographs. The fact which I now 

 recognised, that the photographs of horses carried far more 

 weight than drawings, however carefully and well they might 

 be done, determined me to utilise, as much as possible, ' the 

 black art ' for the portraits of all the representative animals 

 I required in my proposed book. I may mention that when 

 the book at last appeared, eight years later, it contained JJ 

 photographs and 205 illustrations, chiefly by Mr Brown. 

 Although the London trade were unanimous in declaring 

 that it was the most beautifully illustrated horse book ever 

 brought out, its publication was to me, as sad a happiness 

 as the birth of a posthumous son would be to a widowed 

 mother ; for just before it went to press, my friend and 

 fellow-worker, Mr Oswald Brown, died after a short illness. 



MR J. H. OSWALD BROWN. 



