ADVERTISEMENT.
The following papers on Woman were originally published in the columns of the London Saturday Review. Some of them have already been reprinted in the literary and daily journals of this country, and they have excited no little discussion and comment among readers of both sexes.
Whether agreeing or not with the writer, it is impossible not to concede the eminent ability with which the various subjects are handled. No series of essays has appeared in the English language for many years which has been so extensively reprinted and so generally read.
The authorship of these papers has been attributed to different individuals, male and female; but it is more than probable that the writers whose names have been mentioned in this connection are precisely those who have had nothing whatever to do with them. It is not unlikely that, in due time, the publisher of this volume may be in possession of authentic information on this head, and that the name of the author may then appear on the title-page.
CONTENTS.
| Introduction, | [13] | |
| I.— | The Girl of the Period, | [25] |
| II.— | Foolish Virgins, | [34] |
| III.— | Little Women, | [43] |
| IV.— | Pinchbeck, | [52] |
| V.— | Pushing Women, | [61] |
| VI.— | Feminine Affectations, | [73] |
| VII.— | Ideal Women, | [83] |
| VIII.— | Woman and the World, | [93] |
| IX.— | Unequal Marriages, | [101] |
| X.— | Husband-Hunting, | [109] |
| XI.— | Perils of "Paying Attention," | [118] |
| XII.— | Women's Heroines, | [128] |
| XIII.— | Interference, | [138] |
| XIV.— | Plain Girls, | [148] |
| XV.— | A Word for Female Vanity, | [157] |
| XVI.— | The Abuse of Match-Making, | [167] |
| XVII.— | Feminine Influence, | [177] |
| XVIII.— | Pigeons, | [188] |
| XIX.— | Ambitious Wives, | [198] |
| XX.— | Platonic Woman, | [206] |
| XXI.— | Man and his Master, | [215] |
| XXII.— | The Goose and the Gander, | [225] |
| XXIII.— | Engagements, | [235] |
| XXIV.— | Woman in Orders, | [243] |
| XXV.— | Woman and her Critics, | [253] |
| XXVI.— | Mistress and Maid, on Dress and Undress, | [262] |
| XXVII.— | Æsthetic Woman, | [272] |
| XXVIII.— | What is Woman's Work? | [281] |
| XXIX.— | Papal Woman, | [291] |
| XXX.— | Modern Mothers, | [300] |
| XXXI.— | Priesthood of Woman, | [309] |
| XXXII.— | The Future of Woman, | [319] |
| XXXIII.— | Costume and its Morals, | [329] |
| XXXIV.— | The Fading Flower, | [339] |
| XXXV.— | La Femme Passée, | [347] |
| XXXVI.— | Pretty Preachers, | [355] |
| XXXVII.— | Spoilt Women, | [364] |
