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List of Works.

Chap. VII. Woman is Love Incarnate, only men don't realize it; Dimity versus Divinity. Hearts for sale! Woman fails to know her Power. Love, an Art. The Magic Ring—very strange. The Love-cure. Mother-in-law—the trouble they make. Once in a whilish love of husbands. Lola Montez. The Christ-imaged child. Wonderful law. Love-storms, gales, tempests. How to subdue wild husbands. Woman's second attack wins, and why.

Chap. VIII.—Love not to be forced on either side. What Leon Gozlan said about women. "Infernal fol-de-rolisms," "Legal" violence! How Love-matches are broken off. The Lesson it teaches. The French "Girl's" curious Prayer. Beauty; its laws. Insanity. An invaluable Chapter on the arts and means of increasing Female Beauty; translated from the French of Dr. Cazenave. Special instructions for beautifying the skin, hair, eyes, teeth,—in short, the Perfect Adornment of Women.

Chap. IX.—Good-Humor. Home. The true life. Heart versus Brain. The Woman condemned to be strangled, and how she was saved. The three Lessons. A latter-day Sermon—Text: "Jordan is a hard road to travel." The Castaways. Singular. Magdalen. Scandal and Gossip. What Echo said. The Baby World. A thrilling Sermon by a reformed Prize Fighter. A splendid Poem—Swinburn.

Chap. X. "Eternal Affinityism," and Church-ortion. Honeymoons versus sour Syrup. Marriage in 1790. One happy man; the curious reason why. "Doctors." Science—a wonderful case of its mighty Power. Cyprians not all bad or lost. Why? Monogamy and Amative Stimulants. The finest race upon the Planet. Propagation of Heroes—how it is accomplished! The Eye as an Index of Character—Gray, Blue, Hazel, Black eyes. The Laugh-cure in a new phase. Matrimonial career. Gossiping. Healthy Love. Sex in Nature. Marriage of Light and Matter. Music is Sexive. Three classes of Women. Whom not to Wed.

Chap. XI.—Married Celibates. Friendliness. Fretting. "Lip-Salve." Boston. Philosophy—Soul-Marriage! A Fashionable Lady's Prayer. Prayer of the Girl of the Period. Hottentot's