In The Technique of the Love Affair (Gerald Howe, 10s.
6d.), !` A Gentlewoman " named Cypria instructs her satellite Saccharissa, in the pleasures of the oldest sport. She is taught how to dip her arrows in the sweet poison of flattery and to wing them with beauty, how to array herself for the chase, how to approach the game with discretion lest she startle-UM, arid how to-lead home the smitten one. Cypria scoffs at Saccharissa for her girlish cry of " Emancipation ! " She says, " You know we only talk of independence when Prey can hear us. In the ladies' magazines we tell each other how to get husbands." Her methods and maxims are as old as the whisperings of the serpent, who was a male.
too, we suspect is Cypria ; else why should she allow Mr. Gerhardi the last word in his entertaining epilogue ? " I love Women," he says, " but I do not like them." She and Mr. Gerhardi speak-the same tongue and may be the same person.
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