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FROM THE ANATOMIST'S STAND-POINT.

A charming subject, this of beauty, you would think, and one that ought to inspire the prosiest pen; but in fact, when Destiny decreed that we should read up the literature that concerns it, she condemned us to the perusal of many a dry page. We say this in order to speak of one of the exceptions. This is the little book of Jacob le Bibliophile, ''Confessions archéologiques et cosmetiques''. It is both witty and learned.

Everybody who knows that old bookworm, knows that he is an original thinker. He has his own views about beauty too.

"Beauty," he tells you, "is simply—the skin. Resolve me the problem of preserving the skin, and the preservation of beauty is no longer a problem."

"Thus it is easy to foresee the time when all women will be beautiful, for, without a doubt, certain precautions carefully conned and punctually observed, will maintain the lustre and fresh hue of youth and health.