A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . Skating in Figures, Boston Herald, Feb. 26, 1900,an illustrated article explaining how to skate the Cam-bridge Skating Clubs Figure Skating Tests. History and Bibliography 1897. On the Outside Edge, Diversions in the Historyof Skating, Dr. G. Herbert Fowler, London, H. Cox,small i6mo, pp. 72, 2/6. 1898. A Bibliography of Skating, F. W. Foster, Lon-don, B. W. Warhurst, Chelsea, 8vo, 5/-. 1899. Figure Skating Competitions. Edgar Syers, Bad-minton Magazine, Jan. 1899,— an interes
A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . Skating in Figures, Boston Herald, Feb. 26, 1900,an illustrated article explaining how to skate the Cam-bridge Skating Clubs Figure Skating Tests. History and Bibliography 1897. On the Outside Edge, Diversions in the Historyof Skating, Dr. G. Herbert Fowler, London, H. Cox,small i6mo, pp. 72, 2/6. 1898. A Bibliography of Skating, F. W. Foster, Lon-don, B. W. Warhurst, Chelsea, 8vo, 5/-. 1899. Figure Skating Competitions. Edgar Syers, Bad-minton Magazine, Jan. 1899,— an interesting accountof European contests and skaters. 1899. Style in Skating, George WTood, London Field,Nov. 11, 1899. An excellent exposition of the differ-ences between English and Continental skating and skates. 19 AMERICAN SKATING AND COMPETI-TIONSTHE OFFICIAL SCHEDULE Figure skating on this side of the water began in earnest,not as the British naturally think in Canada, but in a regionless favored by nature, where even now artificial ice offersbetter facilities for practice than in New England or in any. 6 — Wm. H. Fuller, whose tour Round the World on Skates, in 1865, was described in Harpers Magazine for April, 1870. other part of the United States except New York, Brooklyn,Pittsburg and Baltimore. The Philadelphia Skating Club was founded in 1849, with headquarters en the49 Schuvlkill River ; and in the fifties, through its pro-ficients Col. Page, Peter Weaver, the Van Hook brothers,and others, set the pace which Canada and the Continentafterward took up. In Boston, on the South Bay and overwhat is now the Back Bay district, E. H. Barney, JohnBerry, C. E. Fulier, and his cousin Wm. H. Fuller, Blon-din, the tight rope walker, J. T. Ryan, J. H. Murch, Lord, and others, developed another school of Ameri-can skating, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1858-9, Boston and Philadelphia skaters in-^ ^ troduced figure skating into Xew York, Mr. Pin-chon of the Phila
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