British Manly Exercises

THE PRESENT SYSTEM. 3 Of these exercises, thefirst and second, as well as many individual parts in others,—observations on the Paces in Walking, the Rein-hold in Driving,&c. &c. &c. are entirely original, there being (eminently British as these exercisesare) no workwithwhich we are acquainted thattreatsof them.* 2d. All exhibitionary and quackish preparatory exer­ cises, as they are termed,arehereexcluded ; and nothing is introduced which has not a direct, immediate, and obvious purpose—no tick-tack, cross-touch, kissing the ground,goat'sjump, spectre'smarch, &c. The twelve or fourteen branches of useful Exercises aresufficient to exerciseevery muscle of the body ; it is the exerciser's fault if they do not this in themost gra­ dual and gentle way; and, if indeed any muscle re­ mained unexercisedby these,infinitely variedas they are, it would not be worthexercising. * Notwithstanding this desire to be original, or rather this ne­ cessity for being so, where previous materials were altogether wanting, the authorhas carefully profited byall the existing works; as, Gutsmuth, Salzman, and their followers, a Military Officer, Clias, &c. on Gymnastics generally ;a Member ofthe Skating Club and others on Skating ;Franklin, Bernardi, Frost, &c. on Swim­ ming ; Berenger, Adams, the Manual for Cavalry, &c. on Riding; Nimrod, &c. on Driving; Capt. Barclay, &c. on Training; &c. &c.— The author makes, once forall, this general acknowledgment: he could rarely indeed have marked quoted passages with inverted commas, as there is scarcely any thing, even in the least original part of the work, which is not greatly abridged or extended, or cor­ rected, either asto matter of fact or grammatical error, r remedied as to utter want of method, or otherwise improved. B2