Footnotes

[156] See footnote, page 133.

[157] He died February 20, 1884, at the age of sixty-four.

[158] Described in the Deutsche Turn-Zeitung for January, 1860 (V: 8).

[159] In “The Life of William Morris” (London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

[160] In “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones” (New York, The Macmillan Co., 1904).

[161] “Mrs. Maclaren was the daughter of D. A. Talboys, the Oxford printer, and under her father had been trained as a first-rate classical scholar” (Charles L. Graves, in “Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan,” London, Macmillan & Co., 1910).

[162] The first step in the artistic life of Burne-Jones, she says, “was a series of pen-and-ink designs made at the suggestion of his friend Mr. Maclaren. These drawings were intended for illustrations to a volume of Ballads upon the Fairy Mythology of Europe, which Maclaren had written with the intention of publishing immediately.... The scheme included a frontispiece, title-page, illustrations and ornamental letters. They were begun early in 1854 and carried on for about two years and a half, and in the series may be traced his development from the time that he first went into the Wytham woods to draw leaves and branches until the day when he discovered that the human form was the alphabet of the language which he was henceforth to use.” The frontispiece, title-page, and a tail-piece on page 279 are all that appear in “The Fairy Family: a Series of Ballads and Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe,” which Maclaren published anonymously in 1857 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts). A second edition, published in 1873, bears Maclaren’s name on the title-page and is dedicated “To my daughter Mabel” (London, Macmillan & Co.).

[163] In his “System of Physical Education,” 1869, pp. 72, 73 and 93.

[164] Maclaren’s “system of measurements to determine the rate of growth and development” is given in Appendix H of the volume just quoted. Appendix E contains a “table of measurements of first detachment of non-commissioned officers selected to be qualified as military gymnastic instructors,” showing increases for the seven and a half months between September 11 and April 30; and a similar table of measurements of the second detachment, with increases for the period extending from October 27, 1862, to July 12, 1863.

[165] In September of 1864 Mrs. Maclaren opened at Summertown a private school intended to prepare boys for the (endowed) public schools. The venture proved a very successful one from the start, and was continued by her son-in-law. Alexander Macmillan, one of the founders of the publishing house which bears that name, had made the acquaintance of the Maclarens in the summer of 1864, and by his efforts did much to enlist the interest of influential patrons, in addition to sending his own son George and two nephews. See pp. 225-227 in the “Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan,” by Charles L. Graves (London, Macmillan & Co., 1910).

[166] London, Macmillan & Co., 1866.

[167] London, Macmillan & Co.

[168] Vol. 7, 397-399, 418-421, and 458-460 (March 27, April 3 and 17, 1873).

[169] Oxford, Clarendon Press. A second edition, unchanged, was issued the year after the author’s death (Oxford, 1885), and a third, reëdited and enlarged by his son, Wallace Maclaren, appeared ten years later (Oxford, 1895).

[170] “The system which I advocate is the result of my professional life—developed and matured by every means which I could bring to bear upon it by physiological theory or practical test. The period of its preparation extends over nearly a quarter of a century, for during that period I have been, as it were, standing in the midst of a living stream of men and boys flowing in from every school, public and private, in the kingdom; youths possessing every degree of physical power—presenting every phase of physical weakness. On these, by these, every exercise in the system has been tested; its nature, its character defined and its results ascertained, its place in the progressive courses slowly and carefully determined” (pp. 89 and 90).

[171] Born in Kassa (Kaschau), Hungary, in 1818; studied in Vienna and Pavia, and won his medical degree at the latter university in 1839; took part in the Hungarian War of Independence (1849), and afterwards made his way to England as a political refugee. See Tidskrift i Gymnastik 2, 225-235 and 9, 293-297.

[172] Born in Skåne, south Sweden, October 7, 1849; graduated from the Central Institute of Gymnastics in Stockholm in 1881; died July 29, 1915.

[173] See Tidskrift i Gymnastik, 6, 687-694 (1908).

[174] London, H. M. Stationery Office.

[175] London, H. M. Stationery Office.

[176] Report of the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Edinburgh, H. M. Stationery.

[177] London, H. M. Stationery Office.

[178] Ibid.

[179] The Syllabus of Physical Exercises for Schools. 1909. London, as above.