Patriarchal Government.--Ecclesiastical Legislation.--Trade Guilds.--Enactments in 1700.--Inquiry in 1717.--Enactment in 1792.--Police Order, 1795.--Census.--Increase of illicit Prostitution.--Syphilis.--Census of 1808.--Ministerial Rescript and Police Report, 1809.--Tolerated Brothels closed.--Re-enactment of the Code of 1792.--Ministerial Rescript of 1839.--Removal of Brothels.--Petitions.-- Ministerial Reply.--Police Report, 1844.--Brothels closed by royal Command.--Police Embarrassment, and Correspondence with Halle and Cologne.--Local Opinions.--Public Life in Berlin.-- Dancing Saloons.--Drinking Houses.--Immorality.--Increase of Syphilis.--Statistics.--Illegitimacy.--Royal Edict of 1851.-- Recent Regulations. 219 CHAPTER XVIII. LEIPZIG. Population.--Registered and illicit Prostitutes.--Servants.-- Kept-women.--Brothels.--Nationality of Prostitutes.-- Habits.--Fairs.--Visitors.--Earnings of Prostitutes. 252 CHAPTER XIX. DENMARK. Prostitution in Copenhagen.--Police Regulations.-- Illegitimacy.--Brothels.--Syphilis.--Laws of Marriage and Divorce.--Infanticide.--Adultery.--New Marriage Ordinances. 256 CHAPTER XX. SWITZERLAND. Superior Morality of the Swiss.--Customs of Neufchatel.-- "Bundling."--Influence of Climate. 259 CHAPTER XXI. RUSSIA. Ancient Manners.--Peter the Great.--Eudoxia.--Empress Catharine, her dissolute Conduct and Death.--Peter's Libertinism.--Anne.--Elizabeth.--Catharine II., infamous Career and Death.--Paul.--Alexander I.--Countess Narishkin.-- Nicholas.--Court Morality.--Serfage.--Prostitution in St. Petersburg.--Excess of Males over Females.--Marriage Customs.--Brides' Fair.--Conjugal Relations among the Russian Nobility.--Foundling Hospital of St. Petersburg.-- Illegitimacy. 261 CHAPTER XXII. SWEDEN AND NORWAY. Comparative Morality.--Illegitimacy.--Profligacy in Stockholm.--Infanticide.--Foundling Hospitals.--Stora Barnhordst.--Laws against Prostitution.--Toleration.-- Government Brothels.--Syphilis.--Marriage in Norway. 277 CHAPTER XXIII. GREAT BRITAIN.--HISTORY TO THE TIME OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Aboriginal Morals and Laws.--Anglo-Saxon Legislation.-- Introduction of Christianity.--St. Augustine.--Prostitution in the Ninth Century.--Court Example.--Norman Epoch.--Feudal Laws and their Influences.--Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts.--General Depravity.--Effects of Chivalry.--Fair Rosamond.--Jane Shore.--Henry VIII.--Elizabeth.--James I. 282 CHAPTER XXIV. GREAT BRITAIN.--HISTORY FROM THE COMMONWEALTH TO THE PRESENT DAY.