Excerpt from Dancing and Dancers: Or Grace and Folly The Opinions expressed in the following pages on various matters directly or indirectly connected, with dancing are t in any way restricted by the conventional tions that are usually entertained respecting such matters. The book, therefore, is in sense to be regarded as a ball - room guide. On the contrary, whatever information it con tains is chiefly of a kind that is t be found in ball-room guides, or, indeed, in any work on dancing that has hitherto been published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.