CONTENTS.

CHAPTER X.

FAMOUS WOMEN.

§ 1.-Such women as have attained celebrity have, in most instances, degraded the sex.-(2) Modes of greatness: female possession of power.-(3) Women famed for attributed genius.—(4) Beautiful women.—(5) Individuals notorious for masculine qualities.-(6) Virtuous women.-(7) The true glory of Woman is altogether apart from celebrity.

CHAPTER XI.

BEAUTY.

§ 1.-Beauty, a deceitful and fanciful excellence: the one distinction coveted by women.—(2) All beauty ideal and fictitious: the standard of female loveliness is "geographical."—(3) The influence of personal attraction how far powerful?-short-lived in their ascendancy.— (4) Counterfeit beauty: actual worth of beauty: its frailty from disease, and from time.-(5) The most beautiful, rarely prove the most admirable specimens of human

nature.

CHAPTER XII.

LOVE.

§ 1.-Love, essentially a female passion.-(2) The passion viewed in its romantic sense: its contradictions and idealism.-(3) Follies of such lovers: a Woman beloved endeared the more by her faults.-(4) Real and mortal nature of love.-(5) Uncertain nature of all human pas

sion: love built on superficial attractions has always in allotted date; even that founded on moral qualities— even true and conjugal love, has no certain control over beings whose very nature is changeable.—(6) Friendship; its superior excellence among human attachments—7) Sentimental love, the passion of the young.-(8) Surk love is commonly the child of indolence, and an impulse to be discouraged.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE VAIN WOMAN.

§ 1.-Vanity, a characteristic of the weaker sex: how far the failing is universal among women.—(2) Cons-lerations as to male vanity: a digression concerning faults in men. (3) The Vain woman described.—4) Injuries 14. ence of this foible on the happiness, meral and social, ef weten: the one sex must be above offering, the other above accepting, flattery.

very uncommon characteristic.—(5) Circumstances which pander to, or increase, self-love among women.

CHAPTER XVI.

FAULTS AND FOLLIES.

$1.-Deceit in Woman.-(2) Caprice.-(3) Anger.(4) Ardour for novelty.-(5) Moral imbecility.--(6) Propensities to slander and envy.-(7) Female curiosity.(8) Inclination to obstinacy and self-opinionation.-(9) Affected sensibility: real heartlessness.-(10) The satirical propensity. (11) Pride of modesty.-(12) Loquacity among women.-(13) Habitual weeping.-(14) General levity of disposition and habits.

CHAPTER XVII.

VIRTUES IN WOMAN.

§ 1.-High merit of individuals.-Justice is to be awarded on all hands,—to the few equally as to the many.-Particular instances of female perfection: moral beauty.-A large number, if not perfect, are not vicious.-Circumstances have combined to preclude in some degree the improvement of the female character.-Better prospects for happiness in both sexes.

CHAPTER XVIII.

MODESTY.

§ 1.-Excellence and influence of Modesty in Woman. (2) A digression: the laws of modesty as regarding either sex; a distinction between them not the result of mere authority or caprice.-(3) This virtue of modesty is of the conventional class; its principles being altogether artificial and local.—(4) How far it is fitting that women should be self-trusted.—(5) Licentiousness of the present day; this fact an indirect libel on the fair sex: female morality in all ages.-(6) Degrees of vice, as observable among the various classes of society: the earliest reform

on this point needed among the highest classes.—(7) Digressive:-illiberality of our social laws and customs, in reference to the commerce between the sexes.

CHAPTER XIX.

FEMALE EDUCATION.

§ 1.-Present modes of educating women, false and mischievous—(2) Public seminaries, or boarding-schouis; their moral, and other, evils; character of the intellectual instruction there furnished: emptiness is wel is misse of what are termed accomplishments - 3 Tree brection for the female mind: the heart and social afectats shoesd be first cultivated—(4) Practical knowledge; noncor the cultivation of domestic dates - Reizen and morality; essential features an every course of astrebon for the young—y Neofil bounds of suy a makketual formation of the female nini omera sharacter of states being a—* Adamos vs. tingfrom pervate and icmeste ecacata of vind ADOR JE RUNE KOradea a sus present system.

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