Lonnergan
by a professional this time, and certainly the most accomplished master of the gladiator period, for whose precepts Miller's beautiful plates still serve as illustrations. He embodies all Miller's ideas in a series of very practical lessons, and he also holds to some of the rough work of BROADSWORD] Silver's day, notably the blow in the face with the pummel. We now reach the closing years of the eighteenth century, when we have in 1798 the Angelo-Rowlandson Hungarian and Highland Broadsword Exercise, and Roworth's Art of Defence on Foot with the Broadsword and Sabre, neither of which differs materially in its methods from Miller and Lonnergan, and both of which contain the useful Ten Lessons of Mr.
John Taylor, a sturdy swordsman of the In 1880, however, Professor J. M. Waite, a retired non-commissioned officer of the 2nd Life Guards, was of necessity much resident in London, and able to profit by gaining instruction from two famous masters, M. Pierre Prevost and Mr. Platts.
He produced a highly practical manual, Lessons in Sabre and Singlestick, &c., in which he dismissed the old hanging guard, and retained the inside and outside, but used in preference to all three the High 66 To the Right Hon. Daniel Finc This Plate is most humbly Inforidity ADVERSIS MAJOR PAR SECUNDI