PATROCLUS AND PENELOPE: 



A Chat in the Saddle. By Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Brevet Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel, U. S. A. (Retired List), author of " The Campaign 

 of Chancellorsville," "A Bird's-Eye View of the Civil War," etc. 

 Illustrated with fourteen phototypes of the Horse in motion. In 

 one volume, octavo, gilt top, half roan, $3.00. 



Contents : Patroclus and I ; Saddles and Seats ; Patroclus on a Rack ; 

 The Rack and Single-Foot; Patroclus Trotting; Thoroughbred or Half- 

 Bred ; The Saddle Mania ; Park-Riding ; A Fine Horse not necessarily a 

 Good Hack ; Soldiers have Stout Seats ; A Gate and a Brook ; The Old 

 Trooper; Instruction in Riding; Chilly Fox-Hunting ; Is Soldier or Fox- 

 Hunter the Better Rider? The School-Rider; Patroclus Happy; Photog- 

 raphy versus Art; A One-Man Horse; Baucher's Favorite Saddle Horse; 

 Patroclus sniffs a Friend ; Riding-Schools and School-Riding ; Is School- 

 ing of Value ? Manuals of Training ; Result of Training ; Qualities of the 

 Horse ; Dress, Saddles, and Bridles ; Mounting ; How to hold the Reins ; 

 How to begin Training ; Penelope's Unrestrained Courage ; Hints before 

 beginning to train a Horse ; Guiding by the Neck ; What an Arched Neck 

 means ; Flexions of the Neck ; Flexions of the Croup ; The Canter ; Lead- 

 ing with either Shoulder; The Horse's Natural Lead; The Best Way to 

 teach the Lead; Change of Lead in Motion; Suggestions; How to begin 

 Jumping; The Reins in the Jump ; Odds and Ends of Leaping; Hunting 

 and Road-Riding; Advantages of True Rack; Who is the Best Rider? 

 Vale ! 



This book is written from an experience extending over thirty jyears, — in the 

 English hunting field, the Prussian armj>, the plains of the IVest, active service 

 during the Civil IVar, and dailji riding everywhere. The author has studied 

 equestrianism as an art, and, although believing in the Haute Ecole of Baucher, 

 enjoys with equal ^est a ride to hounds or a gallop on the western prairies. 



The experienced equestrian will be delighted by the author's breep' talk and 

 thorough knowledge of his subject. The young horseman who may have purchased 

 a colt just broken to harness can by the use of its hints make him as clever as 

 Patroclus. Even the man who rides but a do^en times a year will be interested 

 in the book, while the every-day reader will be charmed by its simplicity, geniality, 

 and heartiness. 



NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 



The reader must feel that he is in distinctively good company. It 

 is a running commentary on saddle-riding, and gives the reader much 

 the same advantages he would have from a season's riding in company 

 with a gentleman who has ridden in all countries, on all sorts of ani- 

 mals, and under all sorts of conditions. . . . One of the most attract- 

 ive of recent books. — Boston Advertiser. 



