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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Ilcm. 
On the Breeds of the Horses of Belgium; and on 
the Horse Establishments of Europe. By Dou- 
terluigne. Senior, late a Veterinary Officer of the 
Belgian Army, Veterinary Surgeon to His Majesty 
King Leopold, to the Government, and to His Highness 
the Due d’Arenberg. Brussels, 1850; post 8vo, pp. l60. 
The above work, written in the French language, presents 
us, at setting out, with an historical sketch of the influence 
various national befalments have had on the breeds of Euro¬ 
pean horses generally, such as the migrations and invasions of 
the northern tribes, and in particular on the horses of Belgium; 
a sketch which is subsequently filled in by indications of the 
amelioration the latter have in later times derived from the 
invasions of the inhabitants of the East and South, not to 
omit the crusades consequent on attacks from the Maho¬ 
metans. The frequent intercourse our (Belgic) ancestors 
had with the Arabians, Moors, Persians, Saracens, and Kurdes, 
taken advantage of by judicious intermixture of breeds, &c., 
will account for this improvement in our kind of horse ; 
with the Arabians indeed especially, of which choice breed, 
Kocldani , even Mahomet himself, has taken notice in his 
Koran, calling them, on account of their speed, the winged 
horses, [les ailcs.) To the introduction of the Kocldani breed 
it is that the English are indebted for their admirable indi¬ 
genous stock—which, as our readers will remember, was 
threatened, no very long time ago, with competition from the 
Pacha’s stud in Egypt—a breed so famous in the calendar 
equine genealogy that even the sovereigns and princes of 
Europe have not had their pedigrees watched and chronicled 
with more care: reckoning, as the horses of Kocldani do, three 
thousand years of pure or thorough blood, without the smallest 
