The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-15

street, and his career is one of triumph. The book is healthy and wholesome m tone, and the story never flags in in- terest. The boys will take delight lr reading "Lester's Luck
 Physical Culture and Self-Defense, by Robert Fitzsmmons; cloth, l9o pages. Drexel Riddle, Philadelphia; price $t.5O net; for sale by all booksel- lers. This work will no doubt nave many readers both because of the au- thor's wonderful powers and fame as prize-flghter and from the interesting and suggestive character of the con- tents of the book, to say nothing of us forty full-page Illustrations fltzsiih- mons writes as he fights, in. a straight forward and direct manner, with no CIT cumlutiOn, and gives q great many val uable hints as to the best methods or physical training and the proper care of the health. He clearly demonstrates in chapter Sth that the heavy bg-mus- cled man is usually no match for the light, sineWy athlete, As a compendl- um of knowledge for the weak who would become strong, the work IS Nalu- able. Fitzsimmons devoted the most or his spare time for two years in WrluhG this book and gives the results or ms great experience as to how best to Keep well and get strong. The features or the book will be seen from it's table ol contents. which is as follows: The Proper Way to Breathe; School-room Exercises; How to Reduce Weight; A Chapter for Women Advice to Parents for the Health and Rearing of Their C,1.;I I in RnNinO. Right and Wrong Kinds of Muscles Contrasted; Bag Punching; to Prospec- | tive Athletes Right and Wrong Way oL Using the Feet and Hands While spar ring, and What the Exercise Develops; the Poise in Boxing; Positions for the Hands, How to Land Blows; Courage the Keynote of a Boxers Success, How the Heavy Man Should Train and Fight: the Way to Strike a Hard Blow; the Plan for an Amateurs sue cessful Encounter; the Famous Blows | of Robert Fitzsimmons." The illustra- ] tions show a series of breathing and other exercises and Fitzsimmons famous blows, from photographs taken during a boxing bout with George Dawson, physical instructor of the Chl- cago Athletic club, records and official descriptions of Fftzsinmons' ring bat ties being included in the work. There is also an introduction pertaining to Fitzsimmons' life and personal traits by | A. J, Drexel Riddle, r. R. G. S., F. R. NJ. S., etc. The New York World in | brief review of the book, remarks: In 1 this book of the Australian favorite | there is no sparring for the readers time. From the very first line of the first chapter there is action" And alert photography, with Fitzsim- mons as it's posing model, ably supple ments the printed words
 Fitzsimmons in precept and example, is a living sermon on temperance and diet. Do not drink" he says, 'nor smoke, nor chew Get all the sleep you can"-this to prospective athletes-"get all the pure, fresh air you can, eat plain, wholesome food and plenty of it,
 Bob" believes with some of the rest of us that there is nothing more lovely than a beautiful woman. He says that if the members of the fair sex knew what routine of daily, health fuI exercise would do for them they would soon forsake their toilet tables for the gymnasium" He wants beauty to develop her muscles, and he tells how she may do so without becoming physical freak
 "Schley and Santiago" by George Edward Graham, is an accurate, de- tailed account of the cruise of the fly ing squadron in our late war, and the t}iockade and final destruction of the ;s. ( pc ral manager of the Associated Press at Albany, N. Y., and was their special representative on board the Brooklyn during the entire five months of the campaign The book is profusely and finely illustrated with instantaneous photographs taken by the author dur ing the cruise and during the fight. and contains also a personal narrative ot the battle by Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley. The book was written with the direct sanction of Admiral Schley, as a letter from him in the book will show; it also has the absolute and unqualified endorsement of the admiral | as an authentic statement of facts con- cernng the battle of Santiago. The work is accurately historical and is an exceedingly interesting narrative as well. one that will win undoubtedly the large success which it merits, In a personal letter to MT. Graham Admiral Sschley says: There is no other one person save you, or Cook, or Clark, or myself who could tell the story of San tiago All of us saw 1t from beginning to end and the Brooklyn and oregon were exposed from beginning to end of the combat, and were closer to it at every stage of the fight than any oth- CT ship or ships If these facts are es- sential to one who writes history cor rectly, then you are qualified in an eminent degree to tell the story of San tiago, and I'd tell it without fear or | without favor" Sampson was in Sibo- ney harbor the morning when the fight began and O'Shaughnessy, of Chicago, swears to it. This fact you ought to bring out clearly and it is certified to by OShaughnessy, who was on the beach that morning and saw the New York there, and this is undoubtedly fact. No, I will endorse you in the highest way possible, so you may fire when you are ready, Graham.
 MT Graham stood with Schley on the Brooklyn while Cervera's fleet was be- ing destroyed being therefore an eye witness of the events at Santiago A ac-simiIe of Read Admiral Schley' s