TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I WHAT IS A KISS?
CHAPTER I WHAT IS A KISS?
II LOVE KISSES
CHAPTER II LOVE KISSES
III AFFECTIONATE KISSES
CHAPTER III AFFECTIONATE KISSES
IV THE KISS OF PEACE
CHAPTER IV THE KISS OF PEACE
V THE KISS OF RESPECT
CHAPTER V THE KISS OF RESPECT
VI THE KISS OF FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER VI THE KISS OF FRIENDSHIP
VII VARIOUS KINDS OF KISSES
CHAPTER VII VARIOUS KINDS OF KISSES
VIII THE ORIGIN OF KISSING
CHAPTER VIII THE ORIGIN OF KISSING
L'ENVOI
THE KISS AND ITS HISTORY
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
ἦ μεγάλα χάρις
Δώρῳ ξὐν όλίγῳ· πάντα δἐ τιμᾶντα τἀ πἀρ ϕίλων
Theocritus, Idyl xxviii., 24, 25.
“Surely great grace goes with a little gift, and all the offerings of friends are precious.”
Je cÉlÈbre des jeux paisibles,
Qu’en vain on semble mÉpriser,
Les vrais biens des Âmes sensibles,
Les doux mystÈres du baiser.
Dorat.
To gentle sports due praise I render,
At which some wits have vainly sneered:
The true delight of spirits tender,
The kiss’s mysteries endeared.
W. F. H.