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even royalty and the aristocratic youth at courts had been his pupils; while his name was everywhere a household one among all classes of the people. Anatomists of world-wide fame lovingly dwelt on his wonderfully developed frame before delighted students in the dissecting room, and sculptors and artists eagerly bid against each other to secure him as a model.

Nor are we without accredited testimony, from notable savants, as to the physical endowments of the great athlete. Professors Virchow, of Berlin, Rosenheim, of Leyden, and Vanetti, of Florence, have expressed this opinion, that Sandow, from an anatomical point of view, is one of the most perfectly-built men in existence. This judgment has been authoritatively endorsed by scores of English medical men, of high repute in their profession, as well as by hundreds of professors and well-known experts in the science of physical education. Army surgeons and chiefs in the training schools, in the great English depots at Woolwich and Aldershot, have also given unqualified testimony to Mr. Sandow's prowess and to the unprecedented results of his methods of training. In December of last year (1892), at the gymnasium of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Surgeon-Major Deane, of the Medical staff, made Sandow the interesting theme of a lecture, notable, not only for its inherent merit, but also from the fact that the great athlete was present and afforded in his person, to the astonished cadets, a practical object-lesson in gymnastic anatomy.