[1. AMERICA—Lady Lavery]
[2. AMERICA—Mrs. Lydig Hoyt]
[3. AMERICA—Viscountess Maidstone]
[4. AMERICA—Miss Malvina Longfellow]
[5. AMERICA—Miss Marion Davies]
[6. RED INDIAN—Princess White Deer]
[7. ENGLAND—“Hebe”]
[8. ENGLAND—Lady Diana Duff-Cooper]
[9. ENGLAND—Miss Gladys Cooper]
[10. ENGLAND—Miss Kathlene Martyn]
[11. SCOTLAND—Viscountess Masserene and Ferrard]
[12. IRELAND—Miss Grace D'Arcy]
[13. FRANCE—Mlle. Raymonde Thuillier]
[14. ALGIERS—Madame Revalles]
[15. SPAIN—Señora Tortola Valencia]
[16. GIPSY—Miss Fedora Roselli]
[17. ITALY—Signora Comanetti]
[18. PORTUGAL—Señora Maria Di Castellani]
[19. RUSSIA—Mlle. Fedorova]
[20. POLAND—Madame Mika Mikun]
[21. NORWAY—Miss Olga Morrison]
[22. SWEDEN—Miss Anna Q. Nillson]
[23. ARMENIA—Armen Ter Ohanian]
[24. CHILE—Countess Lisburne]
[25. ECUADOR—Mrs. Haddon Chambers]
[26. INDIA—Princess Monchsa]
[27. JAPAN—Mrs. Tokugawa]
[28. CHINA—Mrs. Wellington Koo]
[29. CUBA]
[30. HAITI]
[31. HAWAI]
[32. DUTCH WEST INDIES]

Preparer's Note

The Introduction is a product of its time, and the preparer does not endorse its ideas about race. The book was notable in its day, however, for including portraits of non-white women.

Beauty, Charm, & Beautiful Women the World Over

BEAUTY

“Beauty is only skin deep,” cries Ugliness, pinning her faith on the fascination of the Intelligence. “And ugliness goes to the bone,” Beauty replies, though she fears that that shaft of “wit” must have originally been spoken by a pantomime librettist. “Handsome is as handsome does,” retorts Ugliness, quoting from the Plain Woman's volume of Copy-Book Maxims. And so this battle of words goes on.