PREFACE. 



By PROFESSOR J. COSSAR EWART, F.R.S. 



Roger Pocock's book is in many ways 

 remarkable. It affords evidence of far 

 more erudition than seems compatible with 

 the unsettled and busy life of a frontiersman. 

 In some parts it is highly speculative, deals 

 with problems rarely discussed or even 

 mentioned by hippologists, in others it is 

 severely practical, and affords evidence of 

 the close study of horses and horsemanship 

 in all parts of the world. The more the 

 reader knows of cosmic changes and of the 

 origin, history and habits of horses, wild, 

 feral and tame, the more he is likely 

 to be fascinated by "Horses." The 



chapters on the History of the horse 

 and on horsemanship are highly suggestive 

 and interesting, but at the moment those 

 on the Pleasure Horse and the Soldier 



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