An Introductory Course of Modern Gymnastic Exercises (extract)

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD ROBERT KERR A N D T H E D I R E C T O R S or THE ^(outjert) xalml ami ^ifatr^mj). My Lords and Gentlemen, The conviction that elementary works on the subjects of Fencing, Broadsword, and the Modern Gymnastics, were muchwanted by the students of these exercises in Scotland, has induced me to offer to the Gymnastic world the following small Treatise, forming the First Number of a series upon the same scale,—in which extreme conciseness in the letter-press, and ac­ curacy and elegance in the positions, have been the objects I have endeavoured to attain.