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The New Art of Self Defence
By
E.W. Barton-Wright
How a Man may Defend Himself against every Form of AttackBy E.W. Barton-Wright (Originally published in Pearson's Magazine, March edition, 1899) BEFORE proceeding to give my readers any particulars and explanations of the art of self-defence, perhaps it will not be out of place to make a few introductory remarks as to the conception of self-defence as generally understood by other nations. In foreign countries people never fight for amusement or diversion, as is often the case in England and the United States. Bearing this fact in mind, it will be more easy to understand that when foreigners fall out…in Western Arts
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The New Art of Self Defence - Part II
By
Gavin King
THE NEW ART OF SELF DEFENCE - Part IIHow a Man may Defend Himself against every Form of AttackBy E.W. Barton-Wright(Originally published in Pearson's Magazine, April edition, 1899) Readers of the March Number will remember that I described therein a few of the three hundred methods of attack and counter attack that comprise my New Art of Self-Defence, to which I have given the name -"Bartitsu." For the benefit of new readers, it will be well to point out that my system has been devised with the purpose of rendering a person absolutely secure from danger by any method of…in Western Arts