“So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.” StillsHomePerfectTypeMountainModelsConcernedFemaleSuperiorsPurityDisplayVenusLovelinessFemale BeautyMale Beauty Book:The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain