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abbreviated: La Methode Nouvelle . . . de dresser les 

 Chevaux les travailler selon la Nature, . . . par Le tres- 

 noble, haul et ires-puissant Prince Guillaume Marquis et 

 Comte de Newcastle. . . . Anvers, 1868. If the author's 

 portrait appears once in its pages, it appears a hun- 

 dred times. In one of several frontispieces, a double- 

 page cartoon, we see him seated within a chariot drawn 

 by centaurs, with a circle of twent}?- superb horses 

 kneeling and worshipping him; another shows him 

 flying on horseback through the air, with eleven steeds 

 rampant. 



He did not give up his horsemanship on his return 

 home. Since his banishment, said his wife, he set up a 

 race of horses instead of those he lost by the wars ; and 

 often he used " to ride through his park to see his breed." 

 The companion piece to this is that of the Duchess 

 expected at Court, as Pepys sketched her in his Diary, 

 April nth, 1667: 



' ' To White Hall, thinking there to have seen the Duchess 

 of Newcastle's coming this night to Court, to make a visit 

 to the Queen, the King having been with her yesterday, 

 to make her a visit since her coming to town. The whole 

 story of thisladyis a romance, and all shedoes is romantic. 

 Her footmen in velvet coats, and herself in an antique 

 dress, as they say; and was the other day at her own 

 play. The Humourous Lovers; the most ridiculous thing 

 that ever was wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily 

 pleased with it; and she, at the end, made her respects 

 to the players from her box, and did give them thanks. 

 There is as much expectation of her coming to Court, 

 that so people may come to see her, as if it were the 

 Queen of Sheba; but I lost my labour, for she did not 

 come this night." 



He was more fortunate a few days later in the same 

 month; for we have the following entiy on the 26th: 



"Met my Lady Newcastle going with her coachmen and 

 footmen all in velvet: herself, whom I i^ever saw before, 

 as I have heard her often described, for all the town-talk 

 is now-a-days of her extravagancies, with her velvet- 

 cap, her hair about her ears; many black patches. 



