Instructions in gymnastics / by Arthur and Charles Nahl.

  • Nahl, Arthur.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Instructions in gymnastics / by Arthur and Charles Nahl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    early childhood to suitable bodily exercises, or send them where such benefits can be received. For such schools, none but competent teachers ought to be employed, because the delicate body of the child may be easily injured by not using proper precaution. For this reason each family should have in their library a book treating upon the subject, and which would give the rules of exercises in all the various branches. As most of the works hitherto published on this subject have not been sufficiently clear and explanatory for those who know nothing about gymnastic exercises, it is our intention to place before the public a properly arranged volume on Gymnastics, so that it may be understood by everybody. Our book will be so constructed as to give the scholar, or such person as may feel inclined to instruct himself, a full and perfect idea of the subject. The Illustrations will be one of the principal features, it being acknowledged that a correct drawing will give better satisfaction than a lengthy, incomprehensible description. A simple glance at the Illustrations in it sufficiently explains the manner in which the exercises should be practiced. The letters show the different positions, and how they follow one after the other, and the arrows indicate the directions in which the body moves in attaining the different positions. Besides which, correct explanations and the name of the particular exercise, in German as well as English, will elsewhere be found. A. N.