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Come back, as modestly as little girls'. 



Then I shall say: My courtly gentlemen, 



Back to your Paris, to be loved again ; 



Sweet damsels, run get crimped your pretty curls. 



Here in this town, not many days agone, 



A pretty minion, faultlessly attired, 



Whose paint, whose starch left naught to be desired, 



For greater grace put matrimony on. 



Come to the vicar, then, the spirited saint 



Says to the couple : You have so much paint, 



You have such equal wealth of furbelows, 



Your curls lie blond in such identic rows, 



I count on your assistance to decide 



Which lady is the man and which the bride. 



NOTE 4. 



I ask the indulgence of my readers. I offer them only some observations 

 and some recommendations. This would be impertinent on my part if uranism 

 did not call for a new investigation and (aside from some brilliant exceptions) a 

 broader and more intelligent point of view. I hope, if the preceding pages 

 hare had the good fortune of interesting any readers, to develop the ideas 

 which I have outlined. 



Translator's Note. — The American reader will notice that the social con- 

 ditions upon which this paper is based are those of Europe and differ widely 

 from those of this country. The more strict stratification of society, the greater 

 density of population, the requirements of military service and many other 

 causes may operate in the European countries to foster forms of vice with which 

 ■we with our more sparse population and different social organization may be as 

 yet little familiar, at least so far as concerns our native-born population. To 

 the present writer it would seem that the dangers to be guarded against in this 

 country at present centre not so much about the preventitive education of pos- 

 sible uranistic children as about the prevention of those social conditions which 

 encourage the spread of these and similar vices. With the massing of our pop- 

 ulation, especially the foreign element, in great cities, these dangers will assume 

 greater and greater importance. 



The translator desires to express his grateful acknowledgement of valuable 

 assistance rendered by Professor G. F. McKibben in revising the translation. 



C. JuDSON Herrick, 



