Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman
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DEDICATION.
AMERICAN ADVERTISEMENT.
CONTENTS.
PRELIMINARY ESSAY,
ADVERTISEMENT.
CHAPTER I.
IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
CHAPTER II.
URGENCY OF THE DISCUSSION OF THIS SUBJECT IN RELATION TO THE INTERESTS OF DECENCY AND MORALITY.
CHAPTER III.
CAUTIONS AS TO YOUTH.
CHAPTER IV.
NATURE OF BEAUTY.
CHAPTER V.
STANDARD OF TASTE IN BEAUTY.
CHAPTER VI.
THE ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY.[11]
SECTION I. ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY IN INANIMATE BEINGS.
SECTION II. ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY IN LIVING BEINGS.
SECTION III. ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY IN THINKING BEINGS.
SECTION IV. ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY AS EMPLOYED IN OBJECTS OF ART.
APPENDIX TO THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
SECTION I. NATURE OF THE PICTURESQUE.[17]
SECTION II. CAUSE OF LAUGHTER.
SECTION III. CAUSE OF THE PLEASURE RECEIVED FROM REPRESENTATIONS EXCITING PITY.
CHAPTER VII.
ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES.
CHAPTER VIII.
OF THE AGES OF WOMAN IN RELATION TO BEAUTY.
CHAPTER IX.
OF THE CAUSES OF BEAUTY IN WOMAN.
CHAPTER X.
OF THE STANDARD OF BEAUTY IN WOMAN.
CHAPTER XI.
THE THREE SPECIES OF FEMALE BEAUTY GENERALLY VIEWED.
CHAPTER XII.
FIRST SPECIES OF BEAUTY—BEAUTY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE SYSTEM.
CHAPTER XIII.
SECOND SPECIES OF BEAUTY—BEAUTY OF THE NUTRITIVE SYSTEM.
CHAPTER XIV.
THIRD SPECIES OF BEAUTY—BEAUTY OF THE THINKING SYSTEM.
CHAPTER XV.
BEAUTY OF THE FACE IN PARTICULAR.
CHAPTER XVI.
COMBINATIONS AND TRANSITIONS OF THE THREE SPECIES OF FEMALE BEAUTY.
CHAPTER XVII.
PROPORTION, CHARACTER, EXPRESSION, ETC.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE GREEK IDEAL BEAUTY.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE IDEAL OF FEMALE BEAUTY.
CHAPTER XX.
DEFECTS OF BEAUTY.
CHAPTER XXI.
EXTERNAL INDICATIONS; OR ART OF DETERMINING THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY, THE MIND, THE HABITS, AND THE AGE OF WOMAN, NOTWITHSTANDING THE AIDS AND DISGUISES OF DRESS.
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