We cannot here forgo quoting one more passage from Montaigne, which bears distinctly upon other important views of Stendhal. "I say that Males and Females are cast in the same Mould and that, Education and Usage excepted, the Difference is not great.... It is much more easy to accuse one Sex than to excuse the other. 'Tis according to the Proverb--'Ill may Vice correct Sin.'" (Bk. Ill, Chap. V). [19] "In a literary sense." [Pg xxiii] CONTENTS Page Introductory Preface to the Translation v Author's Preface. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 BOOK I CHAPTER I. Of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 II. Of the Birth of Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 III. Of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 VI. The Crystals of Salzburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 VII. Differences between the Birth of Love in the Two Sexes. . 33 VIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 IX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 XI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 XII. Further Consideration of Crystallisation. . . . . . . . . 45 XIII. Of the First Step; Of the Fashionable World; Of Misfortunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 [Pg xxiv] XIV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 XV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 XVI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 XVII. Beauty Dethroned by Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 XVIII. Limitations of Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 XIX. Limitations of Beauty (_continued_) . . . . . . . . . . . 59 XX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 XXI. Love at First Sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 XXII. Of Infatuation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 XXIII. The Thunderbolt from the Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 XXIV. Voyage in an Unknown Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 XXV. The Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 XXVI. Of Modesty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 XXVII. The Glance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 XXVIII. Of Feminine Pride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .