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Title: Hints for Lovers

Author: Arnold Haultain

Release Date: December 4, 2004 [EBook #14255]

Language: English

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Produced by Katherine for Chrissy, Dorcas, and Bryan

HINTS FOR LOVERS

by Arnold Haultain

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company : New York

310 The Riverside Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
U.S.A.

Copyright, 1909, by Theodore Arnold Haultain
All Rights Reserved
Entered at Stationers' Hall

This Edition is limited to five hundred and forty numbered copies of
which this is number 245

To Emma Mellicent Audrey

PHAIDRA: ti touth o dae legousin anthropous eran
TROPHOS: aediston, o pai, tauton a lgeinon th ama
-Euripides

Table of Contents

I. On Girls
II. On Men
III. On Women
IV. On Love
V. On Lovers
VI. On Making Love
VII. On Beauty
VIII. On Courtship
IX. On Men and Women
X. On Jealousy
XI. On Kisses and Kissing
XII. On Engagements and Being Engaged
XIII. On Marriage and Married Life
XIV. On This Human Heart

PLEA: CONFESSION AND AVOIDANCE

". . . aphorism are seldom couched in such terms, that they should be
taken as they sound precisely, or according to the widest extent of
signification; but do commonly need exposition, and admit exception:
otherwise frequently they would not only clash with reason and
experience, but interfere, thwart, and supplant one another."
--Issac Barrow

"The very essence of an aphorism is that slight exaggeration which makes
it more biting whilst less rigidly accurate."
--Leslie Stephen

I. On Girls

"A Pearl, A Girl."
-Browning

There are of course, girls and girls; yet at heart they are pretty much
alike. In age, naturally, they differ wildly. But this is a thorny
subject. Suffice it to say that all men love all girls-the maid of
sweet sixteen equally with the maid of untold age.

* * *

There is something exasperatingly something-or-otherish about girls. And
they know it--which makes them more something-or-otherish still:--there
is no oth