SUPPLEMENTS 



SUPPLEMENT I 



MR. VON OSTEN'S METHOD OF INSTRUCTION 



[By C. Stumpf] 



The following is a report of the account, which Mr. 

 von Osten gave Professor Schumann and me, of the 

 method which he had used in the instruction of the horse, 

 and which was illustrated by actual demonstrations. I 

 cannot testify, of course, that Mr. von Osten really did 

 adhere to this method throughout the four years in which 

 he tutored the horse, but I will say that I have several 

 good reasons for believing that it was impossible for him 

 to have trumped up this make-believe scheme afterward, 

 merely to mislead us. Among the reasons are the fol- 

 lowing: He was always ready to give a detailed expla- 

 nation of any question which we might interpose; the 

 written statements of Major von Keller, who has known 

 Mr. von Osten for a period of fifteen years; the testi- 

 mony of General Zobel, who became acquainted with the 

 whole process fully a year before any public exhibi- 

 tions were given; the accounts given by the tenants in 

 Mr. von Osten's house, who for years saw the process of 

 instruction going on in the courtyard of the apartment 

 building, — according to their account his intercourse with 



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