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in a Fortress
Stratagem of an Elopement Maori Love-Poems The Wooing-House
Liberty of Choice and Respect for Women Maori Morals and Capacity
for Love

HOW AMERICAN INDIANS LOVE
The Red Lover The Foam Woman The Humpback Magician The
Buffalo King The Haunted Grove The Girl and the Scalp A Chippewa
Love-Song How "Indian Stories" are Written Reality versus Romance
Deceptive Modesty Were Indians Corrupted by Whites? The Noble
Red Man Apparent Exceptions Intimidating California Squaws Going
A-Calumeting Squaws and Personal Beauty Are North American
Indians Gallant? South American Gallantry How Indians Adore
Squaws Choosing a Husband Compulsory "Free Choice" A British
Columbia Story The Danger of Coquetry The Girl Market Other Ways
of Thwarting Free Choice Central and South American Examples Why
Indians Elope Suicide and Love Love-Charms Curiosities of Courtship
Pantomimic Love-Making Honeymoon Music in Indian Courtship
Indian Love-Poems More Love-Stories "White Man Too Much Lie"
The Story of Pocahontas Verdict: No Romantic Love The Unloving
Eskimo.
INDIA--WILD TRIBES AND TEMPLE GIRLS.
"Whole Tracts of Feeling Unknown to Them" Practical Promiscuity
"Marvellously Pretty and Romantic" Liberty of Choice Scalps and
Field-Mice A Topsy-Turvy Custom Pahária Lads and Lasses
Child-Murder and Child-Marriage Monstrous Parental Selfishness How
Hindoo Girls are Disposed of Hindoos Far Below Brutes Contempt in
Place of Love Widows and Their Tormentors Hindoo Depravity
Temple Girls An Indian Aspasia Symptoms of Feminine Love
Symptoms of Masculine Love Lyrics and Dramas I. The Story of
Sakuntala II. The Story of Urvasi III. Malavika and Agnimitra IV. The
Story of Savitri V. Nala and Damayanti Artificial Symptoms The
Hindoo God of Love Dying for Love What Hindoo Poets Admire in
Women The Old Story of Selfishness Bayadères and Princesses as
Heroines Voluntary Unions not Respectable
DOES THE BIBLE IGNORE ROMANTIC LOVE?
The Story of Jacob and Rachel The Courting of Rebekah How Ruth
Courted Boaz No Sympathy or Sentiment A Masculine Ideal of
Womanhood Not the Christian Ideal of Love Unchivalrous Slaughter of
Women Four More Bible Stories Abishag the Shunammite The Song of
Songs
GREEK LOVE-STORIES AND POEMS.

Champions of Greek Love Gladstone on the Women of Homer Achilles
as a Lover Odysseus, Libertine and Ruffian Was Penelope a Model
Wife? Hector and Andromache Barbarous Treatment of Greek Women
Love in Sappho's Poems Masculine Minds in Female Bodies Anacreon
and Others Woman and Love in Aeschylus Woman and Love in
Sophocles Woman and Love in Euripides Romantic Love, Greek Style
Platonic Love of Women Spartan Opportunities for Love Amazonian
Ideal of Greek Womanhood Athenian Orientalism Literature and Life
Greek Love in Africa Alexandrian Chivalry The New Comedy
Theocritus and Callimachus Medea and Jason Poets and Hetairai Short
Stories Greek Romances Daphnis and Chloe Hero and Leander Cupid
and Psyche
UTILITY AND FUTURE OF LOVE.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF AUTHORS
INDEX OF SUBJECTS

PRIMITIVE LOVE
AND
LOVE-STORIES

HISTORY OF AN IDEA
"Love is always the same. As Sappho loved, fifty years ago, so did
people love ages before her; so will they love thousands of years
hence."
These words, placed by Professor Ebers in the mouth of one of the
characters in his historic novel, An Egyptian Princess, express the
prevalent opinion on this subject, an opinion which I, too, shared
fifteen years ago. Though an ardent champion of the theory of
evolution, I believed that there was one thing in the world to which
modern scientific ideas of gradual development did not apply--that love
was too much part and parcel of human nature to have ever been
different from what it is to-day.
ORIGIN OF A BOOK
It so happened that I began to collect notes for a paper on "How to Cure
Love." It was at first intended merely as a personal experiment in
emotional psychology. Afterward it occurred to me that such a sketch

might be shaped into a readable magazine article. This, again,
suggested a complementary article on "How to Win Love"--a sort of
modern Ovid in prose; and then suddenly came the thought,
"Why not write a book on love? There is none in the English
language--strange anomaly--though love is supposed to be the most
fascinating and influential thing in the world. It will surely be received
with delight, especially if I associate with it some chapters on personal
beauty, the chief inspirer of love. I shall begin by showing that the
ancient Greeks and Romans and Hebrews loved precisely as we love."
Forthwith I took down from my shelves the classical authors that I had
not touched since leaving college, and eagerly searched for all
references to women, marriage, and love. To my growing surprise and
amazement I found that not only did those ancient authors look upon
women as inferior beings while I worshipped them, but in their
descriptions of the symptoms of love I looked in vain for mention of
those supersensual emotions