The morning call., 1894-04-01
RECENT PUBLICATIONS

SANDow's SYSTEM : OF PHYSICAL
TRAINING Within handsome cover of
pale blue there are pa pages of heavy calen-
dered paper on which is printed record of
the life and work of the most wonderful
strong man of the present time. Eugene
Sandow of Knngisberg, Prussia, together
with description Of his method OF train
ing for the purpose Of developing the mus
Giles of the human frame so as to make
each perform its full force in athletic
training. As a life sketch, up to date Of
Herr SandOw, who is now in his twenty
seventh year, The book is. a most interest
ing one. The reading of one chapter pro-
duces desire to read another and another
until the last one is reached. In the in
PRODUCTION to that part of the book in
which is given the strong mans methods
of training, Herr Sandow says: I'm my
OVID training l have never made use of
elaborate methods, nor. indeed, of any but
the simplest but the latter [ have used, as
l think, intelligently, and with determine
ton and persistence. Ii was always an
axiom with me to put my mind into my
work. Never was there a time when
dawdled over the exercises which
experience taught me were helpful in
building up MY bodily frame and giving me
strength ana endurance. Nor can | charge
myself, at any period of my career, with
perfunctorily using the opportunities,
whether of time or material. open to me
since l seriously determined to become
active and strong. In this, as in every
th ing else, lies much, as we all know, of
the secret of success; for without steady
% In in hon w T. n hor
it be 10 achieve task or to make oneself
stFon e, the best results are never attain
able. If. indeed. we are not likely to make
a more or less perilous approach tofail-
ure The dumbbell and the barbell have
been my chief means of physical training.
aided by a tolerably thorough knowledge
of physiology and anatomy. and especially
Of the ramifcation and the uses of the
muscles. Nor have l exercised except on
the ground, eschewing such arpurtenances
as The trapeZum, the rings, the plank, the
ladder, The mast. the vertical pole and
other parapherE ALA of gymnastic training"
Tie book goes into details of Herr San
dow's system, which he declares involves
no rigorous course of training, no altera-
ton in let, nor any form of privatioD
which would tend 10 make lis exercise
irksome. This work, complied under the
direction of the great athlete by Capt in
g. Mercer Adam. is q 4to volume, Illus
trated with over eighty hal'-tOne pictures
OF the roDg man in as many positions,
while numbe of drawings orcuDy space
on the margin of the pages. New Ork:
j. Selwin TAFT & Sons For sale at the
bookstores. Price So so.
DOUBLE DETERMINATIONS who de-
light 10 the essays of Charles Lamb and
DR.. Brown, the author Of "Rab aud His
Friends" will give glad welcome to this
new book by E F. Benson. 1t is made
up Of seventeen sketches and stories that
deal principally with the sufferfngs and
experiences of common life. which, as
rule, are of little interest to any but the
sufferers. The writer. however. draws ont
their pathos and humor with such clear
ness and vividness that one begins 60 re-
alize with him that the "infinite patbos of
human life" is more shown in The i'un-
noticed sorrows of average people" than
in the great tragic figures of history.
These "unnoiiced sorTows of the average
people" are broughtzto the readers atten-
lion, these consequences and surroundings
developed, and all done so simply, natur-
ally and with such artistic power that the
writer's observation. philosophy and
originality seem to be the outcome of tie