Part 63

Paradoxes of Love, 166-173, 210 Parasols, 463 Pascal: self-conscious lovers, 220 Paternal love, 20; animals, 34, 107, 183 Pepys: Spanish wooing, 278 Perfume: personal, 446; cosmetic value of, 446 Pessimism, erotic, 302, 310 Petrarch: as a love-poet, 215 Photographs: why inferior to portraits, 348; why so often bad, 482 Physiognomy: comparative, 331; ears, 433; colour of the eyes, 478; variety in, and Love, 508; language of passion, 153 Pity and Love, 150 Planché: wasp-waists, 379 Plato: on Courtship, 78, 295; “Platonic” Love, 80; origin of Love, 85; pre-matrimonial acquaintance, 127; mixed mood of love, 168; irrational love, 218; feminine inferiority, 260; Love and Beauty, 322 Pleasure and pain, 168 Ploss: love-charms, 251; Germanic marriages, 281 Plumpness: inspires Love, 304 Polish Beauty, 528 Polygamy: among animals, 36; conducive to Jealousy, 63; among Hebrews, 69; in India, 72; neutralizes conjugal love, 181 Portraits, 348, 480; typical, 537 Pretty: definition of, 521 Pride: in paternal love, 22; in Romantic Love, 31; and vanity, 141-145; in conjugal love, 184; masculine vanity, 215; wounded, cures Love, 263 Procrastination, 116 Proportion, 338; facial, 448; stature, 449 Proposing, 70, 142, 152, 242, 253 Prudery, 125, 388 Purchase of wives, 58 Puritans: sins of, against Health, 419

Quadroons: beauty of American, 321; graceful gait, 361

Railway whistles, 434 Raleigh: deep love, 224, 258 Rank: an enemy of Love, 143, 269 Raphael: on Beauty, 512 Realism: emotional, desirable in novels, 68 Reclam, Prof.: dust in lungs, 445; night air, 317, 525 Richardson, W. B.; the ideal city, 316 Right-handedness, 408 Roberts, Charles: brunettes and blondes, 529 Roberts, J. B.: nasal deformities, 444 Rochefoucauld, La: women, love, and friendship, 26; pleasure of love, 196 Roman Beauty, 88; hair, 497 Roman Love, 86-92 Rousseau: on woman’s Love, 120; his last love, 206, 252 Rückert: kissing, 236 Ruskin: poetry and science, 9; love of dismal scenery, 13; amorous paradoxes, 167; woman’s work, 291; health and beauty, 311; and utility, 311; happiness essential to beauty, 315; intellect beautifies the features, 324; taste of savages, 330; beauty and utility, 332; degradation and ugliness, 334; wild scenery, 337; symmetry, 338; curvature, 341; colour, 345, 347; moderation, 378; expression in the mouth, 410; virtue and Beauty, 421; Greek features, 440; turban, beauty of, 495; southern Beauty, 501 Russian old maids, 193

Sappho: as a Love-poet, 81 Savages: development of maternal love, 20; parental love, irregular, 21; filial love weak, 22; strangers to Romantic Love, 54; inferior to birds, 54; courtship, 56; regard for beauty, 60; Jealousy and Polygamy, 62, 128; Gallantry, 157; masculine women, 174; notions of Beauty, 179, 328; conjugal attachment, 182; kissing, 229; sense delicacy, 231; inferior to us in Health, 312; taste, 327, 409; tests of Beauty, 331, 485; ugliness of, 333; dancing, 365; muscular development, 371; noses, 437; paint, 458 Scalp: movements of, 451 Scandinavian complexion, 459, 500 Scherer: on mediæval German Love, 105 Scherr, J.: on witchcraft trials, 94; Wieland in love, 213; Petrarch, 216; mediæval courtship, 239; mediæval Spanish women, 277 Schiller: Minnesingers, 104 Schopenhauer: on the Will, 3; æsthetic enjoyment, 13; final cause of colour in animals, 50; love at first sight, 152; self-sacrifice, 161; torments, 169; celibacy and genius, 197; genius and woman’s love, 242; unhappy marriages, 259; theory of Love, 301-310; animal Beauty, 332; masculine and feminine beauty, 343; small feet, 354; the unæsthetic sex, 386; noise and culture, 435; noses and marriage, 436, 443; Germans, 523 Schumann, R.: 162; love-affairs, 214; on German Beauty, 526 Schweiger-Lerchenfeld: Italian women, 275; Spanish love-making, 278 Schwenninger cure for corpulence, 383 Scotch Beauty, 537 Scott, Sir W.: on Dryden and Love, 89; and marriage, 198, 217; masculine vanity, 252 Seeley, Prof.: Goethe on Love, 287 Selden: marriage, 261 Self-sacrifice: an overtone of Love, 31, 131, 157; conjugal, 160, 188; in feminine Love, 284; Schopenhauer on, 301, 309 Sellar, Prof.: Ovid, 201 Seneca: Beauty, 259 Sensuality and Romantic Love, 76 Service for a wife, 58 Sex: the unæsthetic, 386; and education, 541 Sexual differentiation, 174, 489, 520, 541 Sexual Selection (_see_ also Love and Individual Preference): among animals, 44; primitive men, 59; effect on chest, 394; loss of hair, 403, 486; blushes, 426; ears, 429; noses, 440; complexion, 455; eyes, 464, 465; masculine and feminine, 489; preserves hair on head, 492; action uncertain, 493; _versus_ Natural Selection, 542 Shakspere: treatment of Love, 2, 111; invests inanimate objects with human feelings, 3; on Beauty, 32; coyness and modesty, 115; woman’s Love, 120; amorous hyperbole, 162; course of true love, 170; what inspires love in women, 178; marriage of, 198; amorous character of, 201; blind love, 202; lunatic and lover, 218; kissing, 236; winning love, 238; refusals, 241; flattery, 244; unsought love, 254; tests of Love, 255; love never fatal, 255; reason as Love’s physician, 263; hereditary Beauty, 322; feet, 351; the beautiful and the characteristic, 410; poet of Love, 421; blushes, 426; expression in the eyes, 475, 483; love inspired by eyes, 482; Blondes and Brunettes, 496, 497 Shelley: paradox of Love, 167; loving and being loved, 196; amorous disposition of, 202, 217 Shoes: tight, objections to, 353; improvements in, 363 Shoulders, the, 400 Simcox, G. A.: on Gallantry, 92; mediæval ugliness, 315; noses, 442 Sisterly love, 23 Skating: effects on Beauty, 373 Skin. _See_ Complexion. Sleep: and noise, 317, 434; refreshing, 398 Smoothness, 344, 394, 403, 432, 488, 490 Soap: should be used in the face, 452, 462; good and bad, 461 Solomon’s Song, 70 Sources of Love, 303 Southey: woman’s faith, 259 Southwell, 167 Spanish Beauty: feet, 362; grace, 374, 518, 533; chest deformed by Fashion, 395; lips, 419; mantillas, 388, 510; complexion, 501; general, 515-522; refinement, 524 Spanish Love: chivalry, 99; falling in love, 152, 196; extravagant Gallantry, 221; ardour, 275, 277-280 Spencer, Herbert: on primitive paternal love, 21; filial love, 22; analysis of Love, 31, 33; money-marriages, 113; woman’s sphere, 195; origin of kissing, 229; irregular mixture of ancestral qualities in children, 306; individuals _versus_ the species, 308; female savages uglier than male, 312; intellectual and physical beauty, 320; evolution of Beauty, 327; muscular power of savages, 371; laziness of savages, 372; masculine Fashion, 392 Spenser: Love and friendship, 108 Staël, Mme. de: on Beauty and intellect, 32; Love _versus_ parental dictation, 273 Stanton, Mrs. E. C., 97 Stature and Beauty, 520 Stays: for deformed women, 385 Steatopyga, 375 Steele: kissing, 227; love-letters, 247 Stenches and noises, 435 Stendhal: Love and age, 138; Love in France, 176; humiliation poisons Love, 263, 266 St. Jerome: on the education of girls, 96 Stockings: best kind, 363 Suckling: lovers’ pallor, 225 Suicide: from Love, 121 Sunshine: good for the complexion, 454; does not cause freckles, 462; and Health, 500, 512, 515 Surgery, cosmetic, 432, 443 Swift: marriage, 185; love-affairs, 210 Swiss, the, 525 Symmetry, natural tendency to, in flowers, 10, 73, 180, 216 Symonds: on Italian Love, 101; formal code of Love, 106; Petrarch, 216; Shelley, 217 Sympathy: and affection, 73; an overtone of love, 31, 145-157; development of, 147; in conjugal love, 183

Taine, H.: English Beauty and Love, 532 _seq._ Taste: æsthetic theories of, 327; disputing about, 339, 409, 417, 423; _versus_ Fashion, 437; sense of, 446; non-æsthetic standard, 529 Teeth: 409, 411, 415; care of, 422 Tennyson: kissing, 235 Tests of Beauty: negative, 330; positive, 338 Thackeray: advice to lovers, 126; Love, 168; to women, 252; simpering Madonnas, 315; dark heroines, 498; French physique, 506 Thaxter, Mrs.: women and birds, 151 Thomson, 218 Toe, great, evolution of, 359 Topinard: early decrepitude of savages, 312; life prolonged in France, 316; crossing, 318, 320; nose, 437; deformed skulls, 450; dark races, 501; French nation, 508 Tourgenieff: on a dog’s love, 17; first love, 204 Trollope, A.: American Gallantry, 298 Troubadours, 102, 221, 222 Trousers, 392 Turks, 319 Tylor, E. B.: the ape’s gait, 357; arms, 402; negro’s finger-nails, 406; blushing, 427; ears, 433; nose, 437; skulls, 450 Tyranny of ugly women, 387, 496

Ugliness: follows ill-health in animals, 46; in women, 186; no bar to marriage, 191; mediæval, 314; due to simian resemblance, 331; savage features, 333; degradation, 333; decrepitude and disease, 334; tyranny of, 387; due to indolence, 397; a sin, 400; “beauty-spots,” 452 Use and disuse, effect of, on organs, 327 Utility and Beauty, 332, 336

Veils, 463 Vice: destroys Beauty, 418, 478 Viragoes, 175, 190 Virchow, Prof.: Brunettes and Blondes, 499 Virgil: Love-episode, 89 Vogt, Carl: sexual divergence, 174; negro’s feet, 356; females and animals, 360; thighs, 371 Voice, a musical, 435 Voltaire: on ancient and modern friendship, 26; standard of taste, 327

Wagner, R.: leading motives, literary application of, 114; analogies between Love and music, 140; feminine devotion, 160; marriage, 198; a musical kiss, 237, 330, 414 Waist, 378 Waitz: Magyars, 319; Chinese complexion, 454, 457; decrease in number of blondes, 498 Walker, A.: 259; woman’s gait, 375; French Beauty, 506 Walking, 357, 364 Wallace, A. R.: on choice exerted by animals, 43; Natural _versus_ Sexual Selection, 43-50; beauty correlated with health in animals, 46; sources of colour in animals, 48; chest of Amazon Indians, 396; hair on arm, 403 Waltz: the dance of Love, 369 Warner, Chas. D.: women and birds, 151 Wasp-waist mania, the, 379, 494 Wealth, vulgar display of, 387 White, R. G.: blonde type, 497; Viennese Beauty, 528 Wieland: love-affair, 213 Wife: capture, 57; purchase, 58; service for, 58; capture and coyness, 114; selling, 289 Wilde, Oscar, 392 Winckelmann: Greek Beauty, 314, 332; curvature, 342; breasts, 395; Greek chest, 397; hand, 405; chin, 413; dimples, 413; lips, 415; ears, 431; nose, 436; eyes, 473; hair, 496, 502; dark complexion, 500, 501; Italian Beauty, 514 Winning Love, art of: 1, 41, 75, 115, 126, 129, 237-255; brass buttons, 238; confidence and boldness, 239; pleasant associations, 239; perseverance, 241; feigned indifference, 241; compliments, 245; Love-letters, 246; for women, 250; proposing, 253; how to meet coyness, 254; spicing flattery with burlesque, 301 Witchcraft, trials for, 94 Woe, ecstasy of, 168 Woman: weak in impersonal emotions, 16; strong in conjugal and maternal love, 19; inferior to man in Romantic Love, 19, 120; prefers manly to handsome men, 60; position in Egypt, 67; among Hebrews, 69; in India, 72; ancient Greece, 77; Rome, 87; mediæval degradation, 93; proverbs about, 96; oasis of culture, 105; position in France, 107; cruelty to birds, 150; intelligent, 155; in public life, 160, 175; loses Beauty prematurely, 186; employment problem, 195, 290; uniform worship, 237; discourages deep Love, 242; inferior to man, 259; Huxley’s ideal, 261; in mediæval Spain, 277; indifferent to loss of Health, and the consequences, 312; superior in Beauty to man, 342; deplorable conservatism, 367; penalty of indolence, 385; has no sense of beauty, 385, 388, 396, 401, 494; needs no stays, 385; deficient in taste, 386; duped by sly milliners, 387; object of dress, 388; needs æsthetic instruction, 389; riding hat, 392; fashion preferred to good manners, 495 Wooing. _See_ courtship Woody, S. E.: electrolysis for removing hairs, 494 Wrinkles, 406, 451

Yankee, 542 Young, 198

Zimmermann, O.: Ecstasy of woe, 168 Zola, 420

THE END

Transcriber’s Note

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. The following issues should be noted, along with the resolutions.

27.27 the lover[’]s concentrated affection Restored.

53.20 at their [b/h]oly places Replaced.

53.26 in displaying their beauty.[’/”] Replaced.

55.28 Letourne[a]u, in his _Sociologie_ Inserted.

63.1 ‘the means of causing enmity’[”] Probable closing.

64.11 monog[o/a]my is the only marital relation Replaced.

67.26 mere passion linked with opportunity.[”] Added.

133.44 Prior[-]ity of discovery Removed.

138.12 as a woman of twenty-eight;[”] Probable closing.

138.18 the gay and thoughtless first love.[”] Added.

163.9 B[i/y]ron really feels Replaced.

178.19 their energy[,] courage, and manly prowess Added.

205.1 really attached since[’/”] Replaced.

241.18 Who listens once will listen twice[;] Added.

252.39 was promptly accepted.[”] Probable closing.

271.38 where they do not marry.[’/”] Replaced.

273.19 And power of love.’[”] Added.

272.4 not knowing wh[e/i]ther she was going? Replaced.

285.38 [“]O love, O fire! once he drew Added.

288.30 but the brigh[t]est of all is this Inserted.

323.4 [‘/“]with the ugly Eros Replaced.

393.19 considered fashionable[.] Added.

394.26 under the arm.[”] Added.

406.19 modified to their advantage[.] Added.

407.17 but glycerine [don’t] agree with every one _Sic_

424.43 have supplanted natural selection[.] Added.

459.34 An emphatic [“]No” is the answer. Added.

487.14 the ancient Egypt[ai/ia]ns Transposed.

506.19 in these words: [“]National vanity Added.

516.6 the central part of the peni[u/n]sula Inverted.

521.39 [“]A woman’ is _fine_ Added.

522.3 said that [“]Nature did never Added.

539.6 in the atmosphere of New England.[”] Added.

The punctuation of the Index is occasionally irregular, and has been silently standardized.