CONTENTS.

Preliminary EssayPage [ix]
English Advertisement[1]
CHAPTER I.—Importance of the Subject[11]
CHAPTER II.—Urgency of the Discussion of this Subject in relation to the Interests of Decency and Morality[21]
CHAPTER III.—Cautions to Youth[35]
CHAPTER IV.—Nature of Beauty[46]
CHAPTER V.—Standard of Taste in Beauty[56]
CHAPTER VI.—The Elements of Beauty[72]
Section I.—Elements of Beauty in Inanimate Beings[74]
Section II.—Elements of Beauty in Living Beings[88]
Section III.—Elements of Beauty in Thinking Beings[93]
Section IV.—Elements of Beauty as employed in Objects of Art[103]
Beauty of Useful Objects[104]
Beauty of Ornamental Objects[108]
Beauty of Intellectual Objects[113]
Summary of this Chapter[120]
Appendix to the Preceding Chapters[123]
Section I.—Nature of the Picturesque[123]
Section II.—Cause of Laughter[125]
Section III.—Cause of the Pleasure received from Representations exciting Pity[131]
CHAPTER VII.—Anatomical and Physiological Principles[139]
CHAPTER VIII.—Of the Ages of Women in relation to Beauty[152]
CHAPTER IX.—Of the Causes of Beauty in Woman[166]
CHAPTER X.—Of the Standard of Beauty in Woman[171]
CHAPTER XI.—Of the Three Species of Female Beauty generally viewed[185]
CHAPTER XII.—First Species of Beauty: Beauty of the Locomotive System[189]
First Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[191]
Second Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[197]
Third Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[198]
CHAPTER XIII.—Second Species of Beauty: Beauty of the Nutritive System[203]
First Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[208]
Second Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[210]
Third Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[212]
CHAPTER XIV.—Third Species of Beauty: Beauty of the Thinking System[225]
First Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[226]
Second Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[227]
Third Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty[229]
CHAPTER XV.—Beauty of the Face in particular[238]
CHAPTER XVI.—Combinations and Transitions of the Three Species of Female Beauty[254]
CHAPTER XVII.—Proportion, Character, Expression, &c.[259]
CHAPTER XVIII.—The Greek Ideal Beauty[280]
CHAPTER XIX.—The Ideal of Female Beauty[307]
CHAPTER XX.—Defects of Beauty[320]
Defects of the Locomotive System[320]
Defects of the Vital System[323]
Defects of the Mental System[327]
CHAPTER XXI.—External Indications, or Art of Determining the precise Figure, the degree of Beauty, the Mind, the Habits, and the Age of Women, notwithstanding the Aids and Disguises of Dress[329]
External Indications of Figure[329]
External Indications of Beauty[332]
External Indications of Mind[335]
External Indications of Habits[337]
External Indications of Age[339]
Appendix[343]