LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[The Knight, Death, and the Devil]
From an engraving by Albert Dürer.		Frontispiece
[Combat between Amazons and Attic heroes.] Fourth century, B.C.
From a Greek vase in the British Museum.		19
[Greek coins showing horses] in the early centuries before Christ27
1. [ The Emperor Trajan,] showing Roman style of riding
2. The Emperor Theodosius, showing saddle
3. A Parthian horseman, showing Parthian style of riding bareback
4. Sarmatian horse and warrior, meant to represent horse and rider in armour made of plates of bone or of horse-hoof		33
[A portion of the Parthenon Frieze,] executed by Phidias about the year 440 B.C.39
[Roman soldier about to adjust “stocking”] used in place of shoes
From Richard Berenger's “The History and Art of Horsemanship.”		44
[Roman soldier about to mount on off side]
From Richard Berenger's “The History and Art of Horsemanship.”		44
[A Mauritanian horseman,] showing how the Mauritanians and Humidians rode without saddle or bridle
From Richard Berenger's “The History and Art of Horsemanship.”		44
[Alexander the Great on horseback, about 338 B.C.] The figure is believed to represent Bucephalus
From a bronze in the British Museum.		55
[Persians fighting with elephants] against the Romans, about the time of Pyrrhus, 280 B.C. This picture has been wrongly attributed to Raphael
From an engraving.		62
[Caligula on horseback.] About 37 A.D.
From a figure in the British Museum.		79
[Bayeux tapestry] supposed to represent the Battle of Hastings, 1066110
[Statue of Colleoni] by Verrocchio in Venice
From a photo by R. Anderson, Rome.		203
[Van Dyck's famous picture of Charles I. on horseback] in the National Gallery, London
From a photo by Franz Hanfstængl.		225
[Oliver Cromwell on horseback]
After the painting by Van Dyck.		233
[Horses of the Cavaliers,] seventeenth century. From a painting in the possession of his Majesty King Edward VII.
From a photograph by Franz Hanfstængl.		243
[The Duke of Schonberg on a typical charger] of the early seventeenth century
After the painting by Sir G. Kneller.		257
[Flying Childers,] bred by Mr Leonard Childers in 1715, is said to have been “the fastest horse that has ever lived”
From a photograph by A. Rischgitz.		269
[Mr O'Kelly's Eclipse,] the most famous thoroughbred stallion ever foaled, 1764
After the painting by G. Stubbs.		273
[Napoleon at Wagram]
From the famous painting by Vernet at Versailles.
From a photo by Neurdein frères.		279
[Wellington's famous horse, Copenhagen]
From an engraving (Photo by A. Rischgitz).		280
[Flying Dutchman, foaled 1846]
From a life-size painting by Herring. By kind permission of the Earl of Rosebery.
From a photograph by W. E. Gray.		285