Italian Expert Offers Upperclassmen Texts Teaching Art of Love

Every student in the College, except members of the freshman class, has been offered the opportunity to learn of the art of love as practised by all races in all ages.

A New York publishing house yesterday solicited upperclassmen by mail to buy "The Sexual Relations of Mankind," a book by Paolo Mantegazza, professor of Physiology, Ethnology and Anthropology at the Universities of Milan and Pisa.

According to the circular, Mantegazza has obtained a "first-hand, personal knowledge of the sexual habits of mankind," and has found time to write a book, which has ben reduced in price from six dollars to $1.98.

Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, said last night that he had "heard" of Mantegazza. He speculated that the book would find its way into the Peabody Museum's collection of such literature, familiarly known as the "Inferno."

Hooton cautioned prospective customers against rushing to buy, however. "A certain percentage of students are inclined to lick their lips over things like this, but they still would probably be better off reading Havelock Ellis or Kinsey," he said.

The Mantegazza volume offers 16 chapters ranging from "The Decptive Arts of Sensual Pleasure" to "The Sacrifice of Virginity."