HOESES AND EIDING-. 



INTBOBTJGTION. 



Macaulat, somewhere in his History of England, 

 in describing the social position allotted to officers 

 of the army of that day, writes as follows : — ' There 

 were gentlemen in those days, and there were 

 officers in those days, but the gentlemen were not 

 officers and the officers were not gentlemen.' I 

 think something of the same sort, in reference to 

 books about horses and riding, may with a certain 

 amount of truth be said at the present time, viz. that 

 there are good horsemen and there are good authors, 

 but as a rule the horsemen are not authors, and the 

 authors are not horsemen. 



Anyone who does not know anything about 

 riding, and who wishes to get to know something 

 about it, or who knows a little about it and wishes to 

 learn more, will find it difficult to obtain a book 



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