Jack Johnson had yet to beat Tommy Burns to a pulp when this book appeared in Paris in 1908. Jacques Mortane and Andr Linville were looking to promote the "Sweet Science" of boxing in France, and they published this manual to inform and encourage up-and-coming French boxers in the hopes of promoting a first generation of pugilists in their homeland. They enlisted the aid of the American champ Willie Lewis, as it had become clear that although boxing...