Excerpt from Social Dancing of to-Day Those who take up the study of the new dances sometimes express discouragement with the frequency of change in both steps and names. In the course of evolving these. Dances, a vast number of steps and figures have been tried. Though most of them have dropped out of use, their introduction has caused serious confusion. The remedy lies in a definite course of simplifying and sutndardizing; and that is the course upon which the most influential teachers have decided. The steps and figures described in this book (which is reprinted from The Dance, a work embracing the chore graphic art in general) have the essential character of the dances to which they respectively belong. They have passed through a period of probation amply sufilcient to prove their possession of the beauty and dignity that are necessary to permanency. 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 technology 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.