Hints for Lovers

Produced by Katherine for Chrissy, Dorcas, and Bryan
by Arnold Haultain
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company : New York
310 The Riverside Press Cambridge, Massachusetts U.S.A.
Copyright, 1909, by Theodore Arnold Haultain All Rights Reserved Entered at Stationers' Hall
This Edition is limited to five hundred and forty numbered copies of which this is number 245
To Emma Mellicent Audrey
PHAIDRA: ti touth o dae legousin anthropous eran TROPHOS: aediston, o pai, tauton a lgeinon th ama -Euripides
I. On Girls II. On Men III. On Women IV. On Love V. On Lovers VI. On Making Love VII. On Beauty VIII. On Courtship IX. On Men and Women X. On Jealousy XI. On Kisses and Kissing XII. On Engagements and Being Engaged XIII. On Marriage and Married Life XIV. On This Human Heart
. . . aphorism are seldom couched in such terms, that they should be taken as they sound precisely, or according to the widest extent of signification; but do commonly need exposition, and admit exception: otherwise frequently they would not only clash with reason and experience, but interfere, thwart, and supplant one another. —Issac Barrow
The very essence of an aphorism is that slight exaggeration which makes it more biting whilst less rigidly accurate. —Leslie Stephen
I. On Girls