Neck 15 16 1 Chest Contracted 35½ 36 ½ ” Expanded 38⅝ 42 3⅜ Upper Arm, Right 13⅞ 15¼ 1⅜ ” ” Left 13⅞ 14¾ ⅞ Fore Arm, Right 12 13¼ 1¼ ” ” Left 11⅞ 13 1⅛ Waist 28½ 29½ 1 Thigh, Right 22 22¾ ¾ ” Left 21¾ 22½ ¾ Calf, Right 14¾ 15 ⅜ ” Left 14⅛ 14½ ⅜ Height 5ft. 7¼in. — — Weight 10st. 8lbs 10st.9lbs. 1 Lung Capacity 281 — — Chest Expansion 3⅛ 6 2⅞ [2] This pupil had been working three months before joining this school, hence the increases are not so marked as in the case of a beginner. [Illustration: ROLAND HASTINGS] 34, DUKE STREET, ST. JAMES’S, S.W., _March 4th, 1899_. DEAR MR. SANDOW, _Not often is it given to us in this life to sow our seed and gather in the full fruits of the same. Therefore it is with more than ordinary pleasure that I write this letter to say that with your system of Physical Culture this extremely satisfactory result is to be obtained._ _When first I joined your school some four or five months ago I was a very fair average specimen of a young Englishman (and our national thews and sinews are by no means to be despised), but owing, in a great measure, I suppose, to my city life, I had run a little to seed, and more than once had required the aid of doctors and tonics. The advice of the former invariably ended with the same formula, “take more exercise.”_ _I was quite ready to agree with them, as during my holidays in the country, when I was exercising in one form or another nearly the whole day, I felt quite a different man and as fit as possible._ _But work in the city is a little difficult to reconcile with plenty of exercise. Some time previously Mr. Sandow had opened his school for Physical Culture, and having often admired him and his feats from afar, I resolved to go to him._ _I am a business man, and from a business point of view I never did a better stroke of business in my life._ _I am a mortal being, and speaking from a human point of view I never in my life came to a happier conclusion than when I resolved to become a pupil of the School of Physical Culture. I have increased in girth and weight without scarcely a superfluous ounce of flesh._ _My working capabilities and staying powers are all doubled, and what before was an effort has now become a pleasure. Indigestion, torpid lassitudes, rasped nerves, and jaded appetite, are to me now unknown quantities._