WOMAN HER CHARM AN Is) POWER ROBERT * P. DOWNKS, hit- LL.D. I AtfTttMft PIU AH* ** ityi fAtftt" '*ft?KH ft KAftUfftt*" '"jPlflN Ki**TM AUT wr mi*t.K t.WNtt* Kl.. * * if iH Io tt to it * THE j. KP WORT ft I'RKJiS V 11 TO MY WIFE WHO, IN HRfc P1JRKNK88 AND HKR PAtTIiPltX.NIftft, HAft SKEN rOK O MANV YEARS THR OUAftDIAK ANGEL OF MV UFU, AND OF MY HOMft PREFACE T ET me say at the outset that this book those will interest who cherish low and unworthy views of woman, It Is written by one who thinks highly of woman, It and with abundant cause. that may be -that objected by some ideal we place woman too high, we depict the what she woman rather than the real, describing may be the rather than Ideal what she real ; is. We have spoken of both and the and we have spoken what we have fact, conceived as possible, and known as Readers will find that our pages abound with quota- tion! especially from the poets, They will not, how****** resent this, since we have used the words of others only because they have expressed that which we wished to say more clearly or more mcicxliougly than we could have done it ourselves* 8 PREFACE Let us confess that in the publication of this volume we have cherished ...