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The classical High Priest of Love, himself a masterful lover and a dilettante psychoanalyst of the feminine sex, reveals all the stratagems that lovers have used, or ever will use, the world over, and gives shrewd, ever-new counsel. Translated by Charles D. Young together with the Elegies translated by Christopher Marlowe. The art of love―Love's remedy―The art of beauty―The loves―Elegies. The Black and Gold Library comprises a selection of the world’s most popular and most significant literature―from Plato to Freud and Aristophanes to Hart Crane. “The publishers are to be congratulated for the respect paid to scholarship, for the diversity and essential interest of the issuer, and for a performance in bookmaking that ranks with the finest contemporary accomplishments in this line.” ―Philadelphia Record