Miles Eustace. Cassell's Physical Educator

London, Paris, New York, Melbourne: Cassell and Company Limited, 1904. — 756 p. Illustrated by diagrams, photographs, and drawings.To be a good animal is the first requisite to success in life; and to be a nation of good animals," wrote Herbert Spencer, " is the first condition to national
prosperity." It is the young animal that we need to train, just as in South Africa it is the black boy, rather than the black man, that reformers trouble about. But there are not many exercises which would benefit the child " fed on cold cabbage and kippers, with an occasional radish or nip of gin to hearten him up," as the Manchester Guardian put it, housed as he is in an unventilated room, and perhaps-poor mite!-dwarfed by cramping work. It is the parents and future parents and those in authority that we must also train, so that the alphabet of Physical Education for a healthy animal life and mental life may be learnt and taught by them-taught by example more than by precept or code.