THE KISS

And its History

BY
Dr CHRISTOPHER NYROP
Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Copenhagen

TRANSLATED BY

WILLIAM FREDERICK HARVEY
M.A., Hertford College, Oxford; Barrister-at-Law of the Inner
Temple; Lecturer in English at the University of Lund
(Sweden); sometime Professor of English Literature
at the University of Malta

LONDON
SANDS & CO.
12 BURLEIGH STREET, STRAND
1901


TO

WALTER BENSON, Esquire

I DEDICATE MY MODEST PART IN THIS BOOK
IN TOKEN OF A FRIENDSHIP WHICH
HAS GROWN STAUNCHER WITH
THE GROWTH OF
YEARS

“Surely great grace goes with a little gift, and all the offerings of friends are precious.”