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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎86r] (176/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1892
661
AUSTRIAN ST
Any traveller with an eye for a horse cannot fail to be struck with
the number of well-bred, well-shaped, smart-looking animals that he
sees in the fiacres in the streets of Vienna, and should he try a drive
in the Prater, he is no less surprised at the pace at which they go.
Perhaps the impression is specially strong after gazing at the mis
shapen brutes that one sees in some of the German towns ; but,
•coming straight back from Vienna to London, and looking at the
smartest hansom horses, one must admit that the Austrian hack horses
-are a wonderfully good lot.
To discuss why it is that they are so, or to go into the whole history
-of Austrian horse-breeding, would be beyond my powers. I simply
propose to give a traveller's impressions of a visit to the two largest
(xovernment studs in the Austro-Hungarian kingdom—impressions
noted down at the time, but formed without the wholesome corrective
of a friend with whom to discuss them. I cannot find that much is
known in England about the special studs I visited, as at Mezohegyes,
near Arad in Hungary, in the Visitors' Book the only two English
names I could trace were those of General Keith Eraser, when he was
military attache at Vienna, and Mr. Ernest Clarke, the Secretary of
the Royal Agricultural Society of England, to whom we are indebted
for an interesting article in the Royal ouvncd
on Agricultural Administration in Austria-Hungary. While at
Radautz, I could not learn of any recent inspection of the stud by an
Englishman.
The journey from Buda-Pesth to Mezohegyes is very like all
railway journeys in Hungary. Travelling in rather stuffy carriages,
with a large dining car attached, shut the window as you will, every
thing on your plate is soon covered with Hungarian dust. The
country is perfectly flat, as far as the eye can reach, with here and
there villages in the distance, and little houses dotted over the fields.
These invariably have a small white oven in close proximity to the
doorway, and rarely possess a chimney, so that some writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. stated
■that the Hungarian peasants had no chimneys in their houses, the
fact being that they build little houses on their patches of land.

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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