reated woman's love; the humiliation and
slavery in which the woman's soul is drowned feed her love."
(Niceforo, _Il Gergo_, etc., 1897, p. 128.)

In a modern novel written in autobiographic form by a young
Australian lady the heroine is represented as striking her
betrothed with a whip when he merely attempts to kiss her. Later
on her behavior so stings him that his self-control breaks down
and he seizes her fiercely by the arms. For the first time she
realizes that he loves her. "I laughed a joyous little laugh,
saying 'Hal, we are quits'; when on disrobing for the night I
discovered on my soft white shoulders and arms--so susceptible to
bruises--many marks, and black. It had been a very happy day for
me." (Miles Franklin, _My Brilliant Career_.)

It is in large measure the existence of this feeling of
attraction for violence which accounts for the love-letters
received by men who are accused of crimes of violence. Thus in
one instance, in Chicago (as Dr. Kiernan writes to me), "a man
arrested for conspiracy to commit abortion, and also suspected of
being a sadist, received many proposals of marriage and other
less modest expressions of affection from unknown women. To judge
by the signatures, these women belonged to the Germans and Slavs
rather than to the Anglo-Celts."

Neuropathic or degenerative conditions sometimes serve to
accentuate or reveal ancestral traits that are very ancient in
the race. Under such conditions the tendency to find pleasure in
subjection and pain, which is often faintly traceable even in
normal civilized women, may become more pronounced. This may be
seen in a case described in some detail in the _Archivio di
Psichiatria_. The subject was a young lady of 19, of noble
Italian birth, but born in Tunis. On the maternal side there is a
somewhat neurotic heredity, and she is herself subject to attacks
of hystero-epileptoid character. She was very carefully, but
strictly, educated; she knows several languages, possesses marked
intellectual aptitudes, and is greatly interested in social and
political questions, in which she takes the socialistic and
revolutionary side. She has an attractive and sympathetic
personality; in complexion she is dark, with dark eyes and very
dark and abundant hair; the fine down on the upper lip and lower
parts of th