Observationson the Gladiators' Stage-Fighting

Source pages: 160. Bracketed notes: ["Sameplate and frontispiece. Dedicated to the RightHonourable Robert Walpole. \"Intheseislandsthegreatadvocateand exponent ofFrenchfencing at the endoftheseventeenthandintheearlyeighteenthcenturywasSirW.Hope, ofBalcomie,atonetimeDeputy-GovernorofEdinburghCastle. Hewrote agreatnumber ofquaint treatises ofgreatinterest to the'operative' as wellastothe'speculative'fencer,andyetwasinstrumentalinendeavouring to push through Parliament a Billfor the establishment ofa 'Court of Honour, theoffice ofwhich was tohavebeen the deciding ofhonourable quarrels, if possible, withoutappealtofencingskill. TheHouse,however, beingatthetimeveryexcitedandbusyonthequestionoftheunionofEnglandand Scotland,theBillnever becameAct. Andgentlemen,inconsequence,continued to discuss their knotty point'surlepré.'\"-Castle(E.), \"TheStoryofSwordsmanship.\" (\"TheNationalReview,\"May1891.)", "HORNE(R. H.)", "N.D."]