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ОглавлениеPREFACE.
The following pages have been prepared under Mr. Sandow's direction and personal supervision. In the practical section appended to the narrative account of the great athlete's early amateur and later professional life, Mr. Sandow has furnished detailed instructions for the performance of his dumb-bell and bar-bell exercises and supplied the reader with a text-book which, he would fain hope, will be useful to the would-be athlete and to all who desire to attain perfect health, increased strength, and the full development of their physical frame.
Since the volume was put in type, further testimony, of a gratifying kind, to the value of Mr. Sandow's system of physical training has come to hand, in Captain Greatorex's courteous letter, to be found in the Appendix. It is regretted that the communication was not received in time to insert in the chapter to which it belongs—that on "Physical Culture in Relation to the Army." The letter forms a pleasant pendant, much prized by Mr. Sandow, to the one which appears in the chapter referred to, from Colonel Fox, H. M. Inspector of Military Gymnasia for the British army.
The illustrations to the practical as well as to the narrative portions of the book will, it is believed, add no little to its value. To the courtesy of Messrs. Sarony of New York, Morrison of Chicago, and H. Roland White of Birmingham, England, the publishers are indebted for permission to reproduce the photographs.
The Editor takes advantage of this prefatory note to acknowledge his obligations to Mr. Sandow and his pupil, Mr. Martinus Sieveking; to Mr. W. T. Lawson, member of the New York Athletic Club; to Dr. D. A. Sargent of the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University; to Dr. Everett M. Culver of New York; to Dr. W. Theophilus Stuart of Toronto, Canada, and to the Publishers, for courtesies received during the preparation of the work.
New York, February 1, 1894.
