Show JluJltsu Nothing New An art of selfdefence approximately equivalent to jiujitsu was known Jn Europe In tho seventeenth century Its principles are expounded in a work by ono Nicholas Peters published at Amsterdam in 1674 and bearing the lengthy explanatory title Tho Art of Wrestling and how ono can protect pro-tect oneself In all kinds of quarrels that may occur how ono can with agility and rapidity repel all unfair attacks at-tacks and meet ones adversary with science Tho author anticipated many of the characteristic grips of tho modern Japanese wrestlers |