Dr. Emil Reich has been lecturing to fashionable London on such universally fascinating themes as woman and love. According to the news despatches, so great has been the popularity of his talks that there have not been seats enough to accommodate his titled hearers, and at one lecture the Duchess of Portland sat on the floor. He has said of "Love and Personality": Personality is always a mystery with its antithetically mingled elements in man and woman. Women have loved wrongly and known it, were perfectly aware of it--they only know also that they were helpless to avoid it; the desire of their lives has been gratified, something has happened. What was there about George Sand, save perhaps pretty good eyes, to send such men as Alfred de Musset and Friedrich Chopin absolutely crazy? Nothing interesting about her--even her unattractiveness enhanced by her constant smoking. Yet she could inspire the "Prelude," which Chopin composed on seeing her approach in a garden in Minorca--the greatest piece of music ever compressed into a single page. Goethe's Gretchen, the little bourgeoise, without apparent attractiveness, yet inspiring his mighty genius--what is this mystery of man and woman? The beauty of nations differs very much. The Latins are less beautiful than the Anglo-Saxons. The angularity of the North German woman is notorious; an uncharming person. Why? It has nothing whatever to do with race. The growth of the Hanseatic cities brought great wealth in North Germany; money-bags married money-bags; the result was a people of severely plain aspect. There are not many money-bags in America, although there are many money-bags in the hands of a few. American Men Marry for Love. The American is insulted if mention of dowry is made in his wedding arrangements. He marries because he loves the woman and she him. Hence, the American people have become exceedingly beautiful. Then the facilities for divorce presented in the United States are an important factor in the beautification process. Love is really at the bottom of it all--not money-bags or race, but love. The French are always talking about _l'amour, l'amour_; but really there is no _amour_ there at all--people generally talk most about what they haven't got or don't know. Yes, indeed, so rare is _l'amour_ in France that it accounts for the decline in facial beauty of the French woman--not in movement, for in movement she excels the world, but in face. Rome and Greece were ruined by treating marriage as a matter of business. Complementary to Dr. Reich's praise of the American woman's beauty is his criticism of her love of domination. In that characteristic he reads the doom of America. We quote his reasons from the New York _American_: