Ebook: Self-Defense for gentlemen and ladies: a nineteenth-century treatise on boxing, kicking, grappling, and fencing with the cane and quarterstaff

Part 1. Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery: The Unknown American Martial Arts Master. A Note to the Reader -- Part 2. Self-Defense for Gentlemen and Ladies. I. Introduction -- II. The Logic of Boxing -- III. Standing and Striking -- IV. Advancing to Strike and Feinting -- V. Simple Parries in Boxing -- VI. Parries with Returns -- VII. Effective or Counter Parries in Boxing -- VIII. Offense and Defense by Evasions -- IX. Trips, Grips, and Back-Falls -- X. Rules for a Set-to with Gloves -- XI. Observations on Natural Weapons -- XII. The Use of the Cane -- XIII. The Use of the Cane (continued) -- XIV. The Use of the Staff -- XV. The Use of the Staff (continued) -- Monstery's Maxims.