RIDLEY 



5015 



RIEL 



gripping the leather firmly with his thighs. 

 The le^ below the knee hangs free and the 

 boot-heel is usually equipped with a spur for 

 use on the horse's flank. The feet, with the 

 balls in the stirrup, should be held parallel with 

 the sides of the mount, the heels a little de- 

 pressed. The reins are held in one hand by a 

 practiced rider, but the novice will do well to 

 keep a rein in either hand until he has learned 

 to guide his horse without taking much 

 thought. In the walk and the canter, the art 

 of riding consists in yielding to the horse's 

 motion and falling in with the rhythm of his 

 body; in the trot, the English habit of rising 

 lightly in the saddle in time to the motion of 

 the horse is now generally practiced. 



Benefits. Horseback riding develops muscu- 

 lar control, courage and self-possession. It 

 keeps one in the open air, and subjects the 

 muscles to a light but constant exercise that 

 is in the highest degree beneficial to health. 

 Such finished athletes as the Greeks and the 

 Romans of the ancient world were expert 

 riders ; the knights of the feudal period excelled 

 in horsemanship. The present decay of horse- 

 back riding has deprived man of one of his 

 most invigorating exercises. 



RIDLEY, rid'li, NICHOLAS (about 1500-1555), 

 an English churchman, one of the early mar- 

 tyrs to the reformed faith. He was graduated 

 at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, studied in Paris 

 and at the University of Louvain, and after 

 hia return to England attracted the attention 

 of Archbishop Cranmer, who made him one of 

 his own chaplains and later chaplain to Henry 

 VIII. He speedily became one of the leaders 

 in the Protestant movement, and under Ed- 

 ward VI acquired great influence. 



In 1547 he was created bishop of Rochester 

 and in 1550 bishop of London; as a result of 

 this promotion he was appointed to assist in 

 revising the English prayer book and draw- 

 ing up the Thirty-nine Articles. As an ad- 

 herent of the Protestant side he favored the 

 claims of Lady Jane Grey to the throne, and 

 at a consequence found himself in a dangerous 

 position on the accession of the Catholic Mary. 

 In 1553 he was arrested, in the next year waa 

 brought to trial, and in 1555 was found guilty 

 of heresy and burnt at the stake. 



Related Snbjrco. Ridley's life will be more 

 fully explained and the time in which he i 

 will be better understood by reference to the fol- 

 lowing articles In these volumes : 

 Boleyn. Anne Reformation, The 



Catharine of Aragon Wolsey. Thomaa 

 Cromwell. Thomas Henry VI 1 1 



RID'PATH, JOHN CLARK (1841-1900), an 

 American historian, born in Putnam County, 

 Ind. He graduated from Asb\iry University, 

 now DePauw University, at Greencastle, Ind., 

 was professor in Baker University, Baldwin 

 City, Kan., for a time, and was then appointed 

 to the chair of English in Asbury. He was 

 later made vice-president of the institution, 

 and it was chiefly through his efforts that the 

 school secured an endowment of two million 

 dollars and had its name changed to DePauw 

 University. He wrote a number of historical 

 works which are somewhat popular in style but 

 authoritative in content. His Life of James 

 A. Gar field and Life and Times of Gladstone 

 are worthy of mention, but his best-known pro- 

 duction is the History of the United Stales, in 

 eight volumes, which appeared the year of 

 his death. It has had a phenomenal sale, due 

 to the great popularity of the author. 



RIEL , reel or re' el, Louis (1844-1885), a Ca- 

 nadian agitator, leader of two rebellions 

 against the Dominion government. Riel voiced 

 the protest of the half-breed and of all the 

 great West against the entrance of civilization. 

 Riel wanted to keep it as a frontier. A man 

 of great personal magnetism, brilliant, elo- 

 quent, he is nevertheless a pathetic figure in 

 Canadian history. He is usually called a half- 

 breed, although in reality the Indian strain 

 was once removed, for he was the son of a 

 white man and a half-breed mother. 



Riel was born at Saint Boniface, Man. He 

 is said to have been educated for the priest- 



MAP OF SASKATCHEWAN KEBELUON. 



CoJ. OWer* fV>U. 



Grw 34rng 



Indian Ffe 



X 



8CBNES OF THE RIEL REBELLION 



hood at Quebec, but it is certain that he did 

 not take orders. Between 1866 and 1868 he 

 worked at various occupations in Minnesota, 

 but he waa not a conspicuous figure until 1869, 

 when he led the Red River Rebellion (which 



