Pedestrianism

36 MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. and the efficient strength of our army greatly augmemed. Mr. Edgeworth, while treating onmilitary education, says, "As to EXERCISE and AMUSE­ MENTS for the pupils in a military academy, they should all be calculated to promote and sustain manly dispositions. The judicious S ULLY recommends, in the strongest manner, to military youth, those sports and exercises which form a graceful carriage, and give strength to the limbs."— c I was,' says he, al- - ways of the same opinion as Henry IV. con- * cerning these exercises. He often asserted, * that they were the most solid foundation, ' not only of discipline, and other military * virtues, but alsoof thosenoble sentiments, and * that elevation of mind which gives one nation 1 pre-eminenceover anothe\ 9 " Amilitary school should have annual competitions and prizes for foot-races, leap­ ing, wrestling, fencing, and firing at a target. Though the prize need not be absolutely wreaths of oak or parsley, yet whatever they are, they should be more honorary than lucra­ tive.