Set Up and Electrotyped, 1887

New Edition, February, 1903

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Astor Place, New York

CONTENTS

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Evolution of Romantic Love[1]
Cosmic Attraction and Chemical Affinities[3]
Flower Love and Beauty[7]
Impersonal Affection[11]
Personal Affections[16]
I.Love for Animals[16]
II.Maternal Love[19]
III.Paternal Love[20]
IV.Filial Love[22]
V.Brotherly and Sisterly Love[23]
VI.Friendship[24]
VII.Romantic Love[26]
Overtones of Love[29]
I.Individual Preference[30]
II.Monopoly or Exclusiveness[30]
III.Jealousy[30]
IV.Coyness[30]
V.Gallantry[31]
VI.Self-Sacrifice[31]
VII.Sympathy[31]
VIII.Pride of Conquest and Possession[31]
IX.Emotional Hyperbole[32]
X.Mixed Moods[32]
XI.Admiration of Personal Beauty[32]
Herbert Spencer on Love[33]
Love among Animals[33]
Courtship[37]
(a)Jealousy[39]
(b)Coyness[40]
(c)Individual Preference[42]
(d)Personal Beauty and Sexual Selection[43]
(1)Protective Colours[48]
(2)Warning Colours[48]
(3)Typical Colours[48]
(4)Sexual Colours[49]
Love Charms and Love Calls[50]
Love Dances and Display[52]
Love among Savages[54]
Strangers to Love[54]
Primitive Courtship[56]
(1)Capture[56]
(2)Purchase[58]
(3)Service[58]
Individual Preference[59]
Personal Beauty and Sexual Selection[60]
Jealousy and Polygamy[62]
Monopoly and Monogamy[63]
Primitive Coyness[64]
Can American Negroes Love?[66]
History of Love[67]
Love in Egypt[67]
Ancient Hebrew Love[69]
Ancient Aryan Love[72]
Hindoo Love Maxims[73]
Greek Love[75]
Family Affection[75]
No Love Stories[76]
Woman’s Position[77]
Chaperonage versus Courtship[77]
Plato on Courtship[78]
Parental versus Lovers’ Choice[78]
The Hetæræ[79]
Platonic Love[80]
Sappho and Female Friendship[81]
Greek Beauty[83]
Cupid’s Arrows[84]
Origin of Love[85]
Roman Love[86]
Woman’s Position[86]
No Wooing and Choice[87]
Virgil, Dryden, and Scott[89]
Ovid’s Art of Making Love[90]
Birth of Gallantry[91]
Mediæval Love[92]
Celibacy versus Marriage[92]
Woman’s Lowest Degradation[93]
Negation of Feminine Choice[95]
Christianity and Love[97]
Chivalry—Militant and Comic[98]
Chivalry—Poetic[101]
(a)French Troubadours[102]
(b)German Minnesingers[103]
Female Culture[105]
Personal Beauty[107]
Spenser on Love[108]
Dante and Shakspere[109]
Modern Love[111]
A Biologic Test[111]
Venus, Plutus, and Minerva[112]
Leading Motives[114]
Modern Coyness[114]
(1)An Echo of Capture[114]
(2)Maiden versus Wife[115]
(3)Modesty[115]
(4)Cunning to be Strange[115]
(5)Procrastination[116]
Goldsmith on Love[116]
Disadvantages of Coyness[118]
Coyness lessens Woman’s Love[120]
Masculine versus Feminine Love[120]
Flirtation and Coquetry[122]
Flirtation versus Coyness[123]
Modern Courtship[125]
Modern Jealousy[127]
Lover’s Jealousy[129]
Retrospective and Prospective Jealousy[131]
Jealousy and Beauty[133]
Monopoly or Exclusiveness[133]
True Love is Transient[135]
Is First Love Best?[136]
Heine on First Love[137]
First Love is not Best[137]
Pride and Vanity[141]
Coquetry[142]
Love and Rank[143]
Special Sympathy[145]
How Love Intensifies Emotions[146]
Development of Sympathy[147]
Pity and Love[150]
Love at First Sight[152]
Intellect and Love[154]
Gallantry and Self-Sacrifice[157]
Active and Passive Desire to Please[159]
Feminine Devotion[160]
Emotional Hyperbole[162]
Mixed Moods and Paradoxes[166]
Lunatic, Lover, and Poet[172]
Individual Preference[173]
Sexual Divergence[174]
Making Woman Masculine[175]
Love and Culture[176]
Personal Beauty[177]
Feminine Beauty in Masculine Eyes[177]
Masculine Beauty in Feminine Eyes[178]
Conjugal Affection and Romantic Love[180]
Romance in Conjugal Love[184]
Marriages of Reason or Love Matches?[187]
Marriage Hints[189]
Old Maids[190]
Bachelors[194]
Genius and Marriage[197]
Genius and Love[201]
Genius in Love[204]
(1)Precocity[204]
(2)Ardour[207]
(3)Fickleness[210]
(4)Multiplicity[213]
(5)Fictitiousness[215]
Insanity and Love[218]
Analogies[218]
Erotomania, or Real Love-Sickness[222]
The Language of Love[223]
I.Words[223]
II.Facial Expression[224]
III.Caresses[225]
Kissing—Past, Present, and Future[227]
Among Animals[227]
Among Savages[228]
Origin of Kissing[229]
Ancient Kisses[232]
Mediæval Kisses[233]
Modern Kisses[234]
Love Kisses[235]
How to Kiss[237]
How to Win Love[238]
Brass Buttons[238]
Confidence and Boldness[239]
Pleasant Associations[240]
Perseverance[241]
Feigned Indifference[241]
Compliments[244]
Love Letters[246]
Love Charms for Women[250]
Proposing[253]
Diagnosis, or Signs of Love[254]
How to Cure Love[255]
Absence[256]
Travel[257]
Employment[257]
Married Misery[257]
Feminine Inferiority[260]
Focussing Her Faults[262]
Reason versus Passion[263]
Love versus Love[264]
Prognosis, or Chances of Recovery[265]
Nationality and Love[265]
French Love[266]
Italian Love[274]
Spanish Love[277]
German Love[280]
English Love[288]
American Love[294]
Schopenhauer’s Theory of Love[301]
Love is an Illusion[302]
Individuals Sacrificed to the Species[302]
Sources of Love[303]
(1)Physical Beauty[303]
(2)Psychic Traits[304]
(3)Complementary Qualities[305]
Four Sources of Beauty[310]
I.Health[310]
Greek Beauty[313]
Mediæval Ugliness[314]
Modern Hygiene[316]
II.Crossing[318]
III.Romantic Love[322]
IV.Mental Refinement[324]
Evolution of Taste[327]
Savage Notions of Beauty[327]
Non-Æsthetic "Ornamentation"[328]
Personal Beauty as a Fine Art[329]
Negative Tests of Beauty[331]
(a)Animals[331]
(b)Savages[333]
(c)Degraded Classes[333]
(d)Age and Decrepitude[334]
(e)Disease[334]
Positive Tests of Beauty[338]
(a)Symmetry[338]
(b)Gradation[339]
(c)Curvature[341]
Masculine and Feminine Beauty[342]
(d)Delicacy[343]
(e)Smoothness[344]
(f)Lustre and Colour[345]
(g)Expression, Variety, Individuality[348]
The Feet[351]
Size[351]
Fashionable Ugliness[352]
Tests of Beauty[354]
A Graceful Gait[357]
Evolution of the Great Toe[359]
National Peculiarities[361]
Beautifying Hygiene[362]
Dancing and Grace[364]
Dancing and Courtship[365]
Evolution of Dance Music[367]
The Dance of Love[369]
Ballet-Dancing[370]
The Lower Limbs[371]
Muscular Development[371]
Beautifying Exercise[372]
Fashionable Ugliness[375]
The Crinoline Craze[376]
The Waist[378]
The Beauty-Curve[378]
The Wasp-Waist Mania[379]
Hygienic Disadvantages[380]
Æsthetic Disadvantages[381]
Corpulence and Leanness[382]
The Fashion Fetish Analysed[386]
Individualism versus Fashion[389]
Masculine Fashions[391]
Chest and Bosom[394]
Feminine Beauty[394]
Masculine Beauty[397]
Magic Effect of Deep Breathing[397]
A Moral Question[399]
Neck and Shoulder[400]
Arm and Hand[402]
Evolution and Sexual Differences[402]
Calisthenics and Massage[403]
The Second Face[405]
Finger Nails[406]
Manicure Secrets[407]
Jaw, Chin, and Mouth[408]
Hands versus Jaws[408]
Dimples in the Chin[412]
Refined Lips[413]
Cosmetic Hints[421]
The Cheeks[423]
High Cheek Bones[423]
Colour and Blushes[425]
The Ears[429]
A Useless Ornament[429]
Cosmetics and Fashion[431]
Physiognomic Vagaries[433]
Noise and Civilisation[434]
A Musical Voice[435]
The Nose[436]
Size and Shape[436]
Evolution of the Nose[438]
Greek and Hebrew Noses[440]
Fashion and Cosmetic Surgery[443]
Nose-Breathing and Health[445]
Cosmetic Value of Odours[446]
The Forehead[448]
Beauty and Brain[448]
Fashionable Deformity[450]
Wrinkles[451]
The Complexion[453]
White versus Black[453]
Cosmetic Hints[460]
Freckles and Sunshine[462]
The Eyes[464]
Colour[465]
Lustre[469]
Form[472]
Expression[475]
(a)Lustre[476]
(b)Colour of Iris[478]
(c)Movements of the Iris[479]
(d)   ”       ”     Eyeball[480]
(e)   ”       ”     Eyelids[482]
(f)   ”       ”     Eyebrows[485]
Cosmetic Hints[485]
The Hair[486]
Cause of Man’s Nudity[486]
Beards and Moustaches[489]
Baldness and Depilatories[492]
Æsthetic Value of Hair[494]
Brunette and Blonde[496]
Blonde versus Brunette[496]
Brunette versus Blonde[498]
Why Cupid Favours Brunettes[499]
Nationality and Beauty[505]
French Beauty[506]
Italian Beauty[511]
Spanish Beauty[515]
German and Austrian Beauty[522]
English Beauty[528]
American Beauty[535]

ROMANTIC LOVE & PERSONAL BEAUTY

EVOLUTION OF ROMANTIC LOVE

Of all the rhetorical commonplaces in literature and conversation, none is more frequently repeated than the assertion that Love, as depicted in a thousand novels and poems every year, has existed at all times, and in every country, immutable as the mountains and the stars.