Professor Wilsonhimself a proficient in the noble pastime

Professor Wilsonhimself a proficient in the noble pastime

Professor Wilsonhimself a proficient in the noble pastime

Professor Wilsonhimself a proficient in the noble pastime, and whose great literary attainments assisted materially to elevate Blackwood's Magazine to the proud eminence it attained in his time,pays in its pages the following eloquent tribute to Wrestling, which was, in his younger days, the principal athletic exercise in the North of England.