CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE ENQUIRY. 



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Aptitude for the study of character 1 



Assaulted scolding wives 1 



Their appearance and configuration : often young and pretty 2 



Assaulted, unfaithful, or suspected wive> 2 



Their appearance and configuration ...... 3 



Ruskin on Bill and Nancy 3 



Character similar in essentials in both sexes and in all classes 3 



Difficult for one temperament to judge another ... 4 



Two generic or fundamental temperaments . ... 5 



The active and less impassioned nature : its group of charac- 

 ter notes .......... 6 



The more impassioned and reflective : its group of character 



notes 7 



Brain power chief force in character 8 



Probable number in each temperamental class ... 8 



CHAPTER II. THE CHARACTER OF THE ACTIVE 

 AND LESS-IMPASSIONED WOMAN. 



Tends to vivacity and quickness . . . . . . 9 



Character mainly influenced by brain and capacity . . 9 

 If capacity slight occupied with little things .... 10 



Considerable number devoted to cleaning . . . .10 



Precocious, business-like ; often generous and kindly . . 11 

 Jumps to conclusions or defers to authority . . . .12 



A mother's love and a father's love 13 



In the domestic circle . . . . . . . .13 



Wishes to be good and do good, though captious . . .13 



In the social circle ; not ascetic 14 



Shakspere's shrew , .... 15 



Extreme examples of the less and the more impassioned women 16 



