Hand-book for Horsewomen (with active TOC for easy navigation)

For many years two styles of riding have prevailed in Western Europe--the English and the continental or school system. The two are usually supposed to be somewhat antagonistic, so much so that the followers of each are not unapt to regard the other with feelings of more or less dislike, not to say contempt; the one side being sneered at as pedants, the other despised as barbarians. To the unprejudiced both seem somewhat unreasonable.

The English method, originating in the national taste for...