AMERICANISM 195 



Anglomania in its proper sense is as excellent as in its 

 forced sense it is absurd. If to learn from the Briton 

 how to race or hunt or play polo be Anglomania, let us 

 all be inoculated for the disease, and speedily. If to 

 swear by everything English, from togs to manners, just 

 because it is English, be Anglomania, the sooner we are 

 rid of it the better. The word must be advisedly used. 

 In its better sense, we are all Anglomaniacs who are not 

 sick with Anglophobia, a much worse type of the disease. 

 But give Americanism a chance, especially in horseman- 

 ship. We have no cause to be ashamed of what we have 

 in horses, nor of what we can do in the saddle. And a 

 judicious choice in the field and on the road of what is 

 best at home and abroad ought to put us in equestrianism, 

 if not where we stand in vachtinc;:, at least on a lev^el hisfh 

 enough to satisfy the most critical. 



