and issued the work with a prefatory inscription:

+--------------------------------------------------------+
| TO |
| ALL MEN AND WOMEN |
| OF EVERY LAND |
| WHO ARE NOT AFRAID OF THEMSELVES |
| WHO TRUST SO MUCH TO THEIR OWN SOULS THAT THEY DARE TO |
| STAND UP |
| IN THE MIGHT OF THEIR |
| OWN INDIVIDUALITY |
| TO MEET THE TIDAL CURRENTS OF THE WORLD, THIS BOOK IS |
| RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY |
| THE AUTHOR |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

The title-page of this effort ran as follows:

+---------------------------------+
| THE |
| ARTS OF BEAUTY |
| OR |
| SECRETS OF A LADY'S TOILET |
| WITH HINTS TO GENTLEMEN |
| ON THE |
| ART OF FASCINATION |
| BY MADAME LOLA MONTEZ |
| COUNTESS OF LANDSFELD |
| NEW YORK |
| DICK AND FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS |
| 18 ANN STREET |
+---------------------------------+

A Canadian publisher, John Lovell, on the look-out for a novelty, read
this effort and suggested that a friend of his, Emile Chevalier, of
Paris, should sponsor an edition of Lola's _Arts of Beauty_ for
consumption on the boulevards. "I am too much an admirer of the gifted
author," was M. Chevalier's response, "to undertake the work without
consulting her." Accordingly, he got into touch with Lola, offering to
have a translation made. "Thank you," she replied, "but I wish to do
it myself. You, however, can put in any corrections you think
necessary. I have not written anything in French since the death of
poor Bon-Bon [Dujarier], and I want to see if I still remember the
language." Apparently she did so, for, shortly afterwards, the
manuscript was sent across the Atlantic and delivered to M. Chevalier.
Within another month it was on the bookstalls. "I have retouched it
very little," says the editor in his preface, "as I was anxious to
preserve Madame Lola's distinctly original style. Her pen is as
mordant as her dog-whip."

M. Chevalier was charmed with the fashi