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THE ISTHMIAN LIBRARY: A Series of Volumes dealing popularly with the whole range of Field Sports and Athletics.
Edited by B. FLETCHER ROBINSON, and Illustrated by numerous Sketches and Instantaneous Photographs. Post 8vo, cloth, 5_s._ each.
Vol. I. Rugby Football. By B. FLETCHER ROBINSON, with chapters by FRANK MITCHELL, R. H. CATTELL, C. J. N. FLEMING, GREGOR MACGREGOR, and H. B. TRISTRAM, and dedicated by permission to Mr. ROWLAND HILL.
Vol. II. The Complete Cyclist. By A. C. PEMBERTON, Mrs. HARCOURT WILLIAMSON, and C. J. SISLEY.
Vol. IV. Rowing. By R. C. LEHMANN, with chapters by GUY NICKALLS and C. M. PITMAN.
_Other volumes are in preparation, and will be duly announced._
[Illustration: THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOATRACE, 1894.]
The Isthmian Library Edited by B. Fletcher Robinson
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY GUY NICKALLS, G. L. DAVIS, C. M. PITMAN, W. E. CRUM, AND E. G. BLACKMORE
LONDON A. D. INNES & COMPANY LIMITED 1898
CHAIRMAN OF THE AMATEUR ROWING ASSOCIATION; CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT, HENLEY REGATTA; AND PRESIDENT OF THE LEANDER CLUB.
My thanks are due to the proprietors of the _Daily News_ and of the _English Illustrated Magazine_ for permission to include in this book the substance of articles originally contributed to their columns. I have not added to the Appendix any lists of winning crews, as these are to be found very fully and accurately set out in the Rowing Almanack, published every year at the office of the _Field_.
For the rest, I have endeavoured to make the rowing instructions which will be found in this book as concise as was compatible with perfect clearness, assuming at all times that I was addressing myself first of all to the novice. No doubt other oarsmen will differ here and there from my conclusions. Absolute unanimity on every detail of rowing is not to be expected.