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ROMANTIC LOVE
AND
PERSONAL BEAUTY

THEIR

DEVELOPMENT, CAUSAL RELATIONS,

HISTORIC AND NATIONAL PECULIARITIES

HENRY T. FINCK

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.

1902

BY HENRY T. FINCK

Set Up and Electrotyped, 1887

New Edition, February, 1903

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Astor Place, New York

ROMANTIC LOVEANDPERSONAL BEAUTY

ROMANTIC LOVE
AND
PERSONAL BEAUTY