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Rh tricks does the pain last after the opponents have separated. Tricks of self-defence or of attack that maim or cause enduring pain are employed only when severely threatened safety is at stake. Small wonder that the Japanese regard our boxing as brutal, and that they consider their own the only gentlemanly method of fighting!

Of late years there has been much discussion as to the relative values, for defensive purposes, of jiu-jitsu as compared with English or American boxing. Very likely a Japanese who entered the ring with a skilled American pugilist would be defeated—that is, if the little brown man donned the gloves and were compelled to fight according to ring rules. The American boxer would be much more easily vanquished if he were compelled to enter the arena and fight in accordance with jiu-jitsu rules. The samurai method is not adapted to combat with clenched fists encased in padded gloves. The Japanese work must be done with the bare, and, usually, open hand. If a six-foot American boxer were to don gloves and enter into combat with a Japanese descendant