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of man. Unless we wish our Officers to develop 

 the characteristics attributed by Dr. Ryan to the 

 French Officers of 1870, we can only pray that this 

 is not the case. 



If hunting and riding in our army is on the 

 decline, it is on the increase — that is, the official 

 increase — in other European armies, the German 

 one, perhaps, especially, for with it the Officers in 

 some stations hunt " by order," and the hounds are 

 kept by the State ! Can we not see that this 

 imitation of our glorious and unequalled chase is 

 the sincerest of flattery ? 



Soldiering now-a-days is a profession, and the 

 most difficult of professions, and the Army is no 

 longer regarded merely as " a very good thing for 

 younger sons," as it was some fifty years ago. The 

 modern soldier must think, and must be a thoroughly 

 good, all round, man. Let him not forget that, 

 though brains combined with study may take him 

 half-way round, it wants the characteristics which 

 hunting can impart to him to complete the circle. 



If we need proof that it is worth while taking 

 some trouble and incurring some expense, to com- 

 plete the circle, we have only to look in our daily 

 papers just now (end of Sept. 1899), ^^^^ then ask 

 how most of the men whose names we see mentioned 

 as likely to have commands in the event of war 

 with the Boers, first came to notice. The answer in 

 the case of the following five — viz. Sir Redvers 

 Buller, Sir Frederick Carrington, Sir William 

 Symonds, Lord Methuen, and Major-General 



