of the kangaroo’s leg, and also by a string attached to a wallet made of rushes neatly plaited of small strips skinned from their outside after they had been for some time exposed to the heat of the fire; which being thrown on her back, the string passing under one arm and across her breast, held the soft rug in a fanciful position of considerable elegance; and she knew well how to show to advantage her queenlike figure when she walked with her polished yam stick held in one of her small hands and her little feet appearing below the edge of the rug” (W.  Dunlop, “Australian Folklore Stories,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, August and November, 1898, p. 27).

A Malay description of female beauty is furnished by Skeat.  “The brow (of the Malay Helen for whose sake a thousand desperate battles are fought in Malay romances) is like the one-day-old moon; her eyebrows resemble ‘pictured clouds,’ and are ’arched like the fighting-cock’s (artificial) spur’; her cheek resembles the ‘sliced-off cheek of a mango’; her nose, ’an opening jasmine bud’; her hair, the ‘wavy blossom shoots of the areca-palm’; slender is her neck, ‘with a triple row of dimples’; her bosom ripening, her waist ‘lissom as the stalk of a flower,’ her head; ‘of a perfect oval’ (literally, bird’s-egg shaped), her fingers like the leafy ‘spears of lemon-grass’ or the ’quills of the porcupine,’ her eyes ‘like the splendor of the planet Venus,’ and her lips ‘like the fissure of a pomegranate.’” (W.W.  Skeat, Malay Magic, 1900, p. 363.)

In Mitford’s Tales of Old Japan (vol. i, p. 215) a “peerlessly beautiful girl of 16” is thus described:  “She was neither too fat nor too thin, neither too tall nor too short; her face was oval, like a melon-seed, and her complexion fair and white;; her eyes were narrow and bright, her teeth small and even; her nose was aquiline, and her mouth delicately formed, with lovely red lips; her eyebrows were long and fine; she had a profusion of long black hair; she spoke modestly, with a soft, sweet voice, and when she smiled, two lovely dimples appeared in her cheeks; in all her movements she was gentle and refined.”  The Japanese belle of ancient times, Dr. Nagayo Sensai remarks (Lancet, February 15, 1890) had a white face, a long, slender throat and neck, a narrow chest, small thighs, and small feet and hands.  Baelz, also, has emphasized the ethereal character of the Japanese ideal of feminine beauty, delicate, pale and slender, almost uncanny; and Stratz, in his interesting book, Die Koerperformen in Kunst und Leben der Japaner (second edition, 1904), has dealt fully with the subject of Japanese beauty.

The Singalese are great connoisseurs of beauty, and a Kandyan deeply learned in the matter gave Dr. Davy the following enumeration of a woman’s points of beauty:  “Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of the peacock, long, reaching to her knees, and terminating