INTRODUCTION 5 



pursuit will always be the better for combinlng 

 theory and practice. I well remember the 

 advice oiven to me by an old and very excel- 

 lent player when first I began to play whist. 

 " You want to read. No one can be a first- 

 rate player without reading." Of course whist 

 is a scientific game with an element of chance, 

 but if whist is a science, horsemanship is an 

 art, and a fine one too ; and so, for the matter 

 of that, is driving. I propose, then, to refer 

 from time to time to works treating of the 

 subjects included in this book, so that those 

 who desire to penetrate more deeply into the 

 refinements of the various kinds of riding and 

 driving may do so, since within the space of a 

 volume like the present it is impossible to say 

 evervthino- that ouo-ht to be said. 



