HORSES AND MEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

HORSES AND MEN

LIFE IN QUEENSLAND The love of horses for which. Australians and New Zealanders are noted has inspired Henry Lamond's latest book, . "Amathea; tho Story of a Horse." On a station in Western Queensland where space means so little that the paddock for the horses is thirty thousand acres in extent, Amathea was born. Tho description of ho;' upbringing and education as a good stock-horse and stud-mare, necessarily brings with it much of the local colour which makes that part of Queensland so different from tho rest of the world; the vast plains, scourged by drought and flood, the occasional races or "publican's benefits," and the taciturn men who live and work there. In such country the horse is still paramount, holding a position in society which no petrol-fed machine can usurp. Amathea herself is no "storvbook" horse. Although a fast galloper, she embarks on 110 meteoric career on the racing track, and, although clever and fond of her master, she would attack him if ho approached too near her newly- born foal. In depicting animals and men, the author i.s essentially realistic in his outlook. Ho neither adds to nor takes away from the credibility of his sub-ject-matter. the Story of a Horse." by Henry Lamond. (Angus and llobcrtson.)