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Show t I I HORSES AND FLUTES. I How tlio SytmrltoV Kuetule Arc Sulci to i I Ilavo Won llattlo. ' Horn originally in (1 recce, it. I mil its s rcunsuenec in Italy, and Orison! anil i I'insohl must be acknowledged the true i fathers of the art, however ready we ' may be to admit that the courts of I Francis 1. and Henry IV., by early adoption adop-tion of the offspring, adorned it.s de.vet-optnent de.vet-optnent with tho courtly gnu-e, lunt.r . and urbanity of Krench Influcueii which made the menage the art of tho prince, as another nation und ago made hawking hawk-ing tho sport of kings. "They nay," wrote Ben Johnson, "princes lcaru no art truly but the art of horsemanHhlp. The reason is, the brave beast. 5r no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon a lite grivun." The Greek theory of education, as we Hud it in Plato, was of a twofold kind: ''One of gymnastics relating to the body, tho other of music for the .sake ! of a good state of the soul;" briefly, as Mr. Pater expresses it, "a gymnastic ( fused in innaic." This system of ftdn- catiou the Greeks applied no lees to the i training iff horns than of men. In the earliest ettant treatlw on riding, Xenophon poiutd out that horseman- i ship, like dancing, wuH-dopendcut f uu- damcutally oa tho play impulse, that I t '' for .anything to be dono well it must be j ' done for pleamire; "what the home l ,. does under compulsion U done without ) " understanding, and there is no beauty 1 in it any more than if one should whip ! und spur a dancer." The horse must ( become hi artist, too, in his manner, i and use hte limbs with rhythmical I ree I SofarwasthiacarrleiltliatAthenneus ' relates how the Sybarites taught even 1 their horses to dance at their fcahts to tho music of tho flute; and on one occasion oc-casion their enemies put their knowl- edge of this habit to humorous account, '' by taking out flute players to battle and winning tihe cavalry over to their aide. ' -, by' causing tho horses to dance to a . . favorito air, just as tho Pied Piper played the rats of Hamelin into the J Weser. London Quarterly Keview. |