The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 407
sbut little practised. In the 17thcentury it began again to be popu-lar. The illustration shows a formof vaulting-horse in use at this pe-riod. In the i8th century there wasa great gymnastic revival in Ger-many, and in 1810, when Prussiawas under the rule of Napoleon, a teacher named Jahn, with… … Ancient Vaulting-horse. associations called Turnvereine(gymnastic societies), which weresoon afterward suppressed by thePrussian government, which fearedthat they would spread liberal ideas.In 1848 they were reorganized,and now many of them exist in thiscountry, where they have beenformed by German…
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