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IN

ALL AGES AND NATIONS;

A COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIO

HISTORY OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, CHARACTER
AND CONDITION OF THE FEMALE SEX, IN CIV-
ILIZED AND SAVAGE COUNTRIES,

From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time.

BY THOMAS L. NICHOLS.

NEW-YORK;

H. LONG & BROTHER,

43 Ann-street.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,

BY THOMAS L. NICHOLS,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

A. CUNNINGHAM,

PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, 183 William-street, N. Y.

SUBJECT AND PLAN.-Superiority of the female sex; various social condi-

tions; anatomical and physiological peculiarities; characteristics of differ-

ent races

PART FIRST.

Pages 5-13

FEMALE BEAUTY.-What is beauty? Origin of the human race; beauty of

various races; power of beauty

PART SECOND.

15-20

FEMALE COSTUME.-Origin of dress; difference in the sexes; tastes of sava-

ges; costumes of Mahommedans-Chinese-Hindoos-French peasants—

English-Dutch-Northern Europe-Southern; fashionable costumes;

cosmetics, paint, and ornaments; corsets and bandages; modesty of

dress; early history of costume; Greek and Roman costumes; silk;

fashions of Central Europe; extravagance in the middle ages; vagaries

of fashion

21-38

FEMALE EDUCATION.-Opinions of female qualities; importance of female

education; female education in Ancient Egypt-Phoenicia-Persia-

Greece-Rome; erudition of Roman ladies; learned women of the middle

ages; succeeding ignorance; modern fashionable female education; Afri-

can boarding-schools-Mahommedan-Chinese; North American In-

dians; Virgins of the Sun; destiny of woman in America

PART FOURTH.

39-51

COURTSHIP.-Nature and origin; law, and exceptions; courting by proxy;

right of Hebrew widows; Hurons and Iroquois; origin of polygamy;

barbarous contests; beautiful customs of Greece; charms and conjura-

tions; Scandinavian women and poetry; Odin's advice to lovers; story

of Grymer; courting by combat; equal privileges; Indian customs;

Greenland maidens; Spanish lovers; Turkish gallantry; courtship in

freedom; curious customs in the United States; social reform,

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