PREFACE T ET me say at the outset that this book will interest those who cherish low and unworthy views of woman, It Is written by one who thinks highly of woman, and with abundant cause. It may be objected by some that we place woman too high, -that we depict the ideal woman rather than the real, describing what she may be rather than what she is. We have spoken of both the Ideal and the real ; and we have spoken what we have conceived as possible, and known as fact, Readers will find that our pages abound with quota- tion! especially from the poets, They will not, how****** resent this, since we have used the words of others only because they have expressed that which we wished to say more clearly or more mcicxliougly than we could have done it ourselves*
