Every generation, Terhune argues, produces a few women who are neither mere adventuresses nor geniuses yet wield a strange, irresistible power. In a series of colourful sketches he looks for the secret in women of different ages and countries, finding that each one contradicts the formula built from the last.
Breezy popular history from 1916 by the writer later loved for Lad: A Dog; its ideas about women are of its time. Download the free EPUB.