7 MAY 1904, Page 23

Physical Training for Women by Japanese Methods. By H. Irving

Hancock. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 55. net.)—We cannot do more than repeat from the preface the promise there given of what jiu-jitsu—the Japanese name for this system of physical exercises—will do for those who adopt it. "If followed out in all its details, will make a weak woman stronger, and will make of any reasonably strong woman one who is the physical peer of any man of her own size." For let it be understood that the author will have none of "the weaker sex" theory.