Produced by Carol Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress) [Frontispiece: Girl on a swing] HEALTHFUL SPORTS FOR YOUNG LADIES; ILLUSTRATED BY ELEVEN ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS, FROM DRAWINGS BY J. DUGOURC, _Draughtsman to His Majesty the King of France_; Accompanied by Descriptions, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF MADEMOISELLE ST. SERNIN, AND INTERSPERSED WITH _ORIGINAL POETRY AND ANECDOTES_. LONDON: PRINTED FOR R. ACKERMANN, REPOSITORY OF ARTS, 101, STRAND. _BY W. CLOWES, NORTHUMBERLAND-COURT_. PREFACE. The most eminent physicians dwell particularly upon the necessity there is for young ladies, as they advance towards womanhood, to take active and regular exercise; and to avoid, as much as possible, all sedentary amusements. That love of variety, however, so natural to the human mind, and which is particularly observable in children, renders it a matter of some difficulty to diversify their sports, so as to discover a sufficient number of games that require exertion: we, however, flatter ourselves that this has been accomplished, in the little Work here presented to the reader in an English dress. They will find in it instructions for playing at a great number of games, of such a nature that they cannot fail of being conducive to their health; and which, while they afford an innocent relaxation from study, will be eminently useful in forming that easy and graceful carriage, which can only result from the free and active motion of the limbs, necessarily produced by frequently playing at these games. The prose part of the work has been faithfully rendered into English from the French original; but the Proprietor is indebted to the author of the Tours of the original Dr. Syntax, who has enriched this little Repository of Youthful Sports, with some elegant verses, illustrative, in a moral point of view, of the games described. HEALTHFUL SPORTS FOR _YOUNG LADIES_. THE SWING.