The Art of Being Beautiful. By 9 — G — . (H. J.
Dram. la.)—The counsels of this book are not commended by professing to come from a "society beauty "; but, as a matter of fact, they are full of good sense. "Every one," says the "Baroness," "has his or her element of charm,—and charm is the essential part of beauty !" " Erceptis excipiendis," one might add, but it is anyhow an ideal. The most difficult part of the "Baroness's" subject is treated in the chapters " Artificiality " and "Cosmetics." The great cosmetic is, she thinks, sunlight ; but other means may be used, but with a tact and skill that put them as much out of reach—at least for ninety-nine out of a hundred—as if they were made of pounded diamonds. It is, indeed, a marvellous thing that some women, who are presumably not idiots in ordinary life, should cherish the inexplicable delusion that the paint with which they daub their faces is not known for what it is.
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