Captain J. L. M. Barrett is the Equitation Instructor at
the R.M.C., Sandhurst, and more than 1,600 young men, many of them destined to become the perfect horsemen of our crack cavalry regiments, have passed through his hands. He is therefore qualified to write a book on riding, and the beautiful simplicity of his language and his diagrams in Practical Horsemanship (Witherby, 12s. 6d.) almost conceal by these virtues the fact that if we have mastered what he sets before us we know more about riding than ninety- nine out of every hundred of the people we meet with the hounds. He follows the lines of the method adopted at Sandhurst, writing always with modesty, common sense, and quiet confidence. There have been many able books on horsemanship written during the last few years in support of theories, but this, like the works of Colonel Hayes and Colonel Geoffrey Brooke, is a really sound text-book, and the author's many grateful pupils ought to secure for it a wide
initial circulation. * * * *
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