Now this difficulty no longer exists.

Dr.C.H.

Stratz, of The Hague, has been the pioneer in this matter, and in a series of beautiful books (notably in _Der Koerper des Kindes, Die Schoenheit des Weiblichen Koerpers_ and _Die Rassenschoenheit des Weibes_, all published by Enke in Stuttgart), he has brought together a large number of admirably selected photographs of nude but entirely chaste figures.

More recently Dr.Shufeldt, of Washington (who dedicates his work to Stratz), has published his _Studies of the Human Form_ in which, in the same spirit, he has brought together the results of his own studies of the naked human form during many years.

It is necessary to correct the impressions received from classic sources by good photographic illustrations on account of the false conventions prevailing in classic works, though those conventions were not necessarily false for the artists who originated them.