Chapter XXVIII (1)

"HE WILL NOT SEPARATE US, WE HAVE BEEN SO HAPPY."

"To veer how vain! on, onward strain,
Brave barks! in light, in darkness too;
Through winds and tides one compass guides,
To that, and your own selves, be true.

But, O blithe breeze! and O great seas,
Though ne'er that earliest parting past
On your wide plain they join again,
Together lead them home at last.

One port, methought, alike they sought,
One purpose hold where'er they fare.
O bounding breeze, O rushing seas!
At last, at last unite them there!"--_Clough._

"He will not separate us, we have been so happy"--these were the last words of Charlotte Bronte when, having become Mrs. Nicholls, and having lived with her husband only nine months, death came to snatch the cup of domestic felicity from the lips of the happy pair. A low wandering delirium came on. Wakening for an instant from this stupor, she saw her husband's woe-worn face, and caught the sound of some murmured words of prayer that God would spare her. "Oh!" she whispered, "I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy."

Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, when a girl, loved her family so dearly that she used to wish that when they had to die, two large walls might press towards each other, and crush them all, that they might die all together, and be spared the misery of parting. Loving husbands and wives will sympathize with this wish, for they must sometimes look forward with dread to the misery of parting from each other.

"To know, to esteem, to love--and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!"

In all ages the anticipation and the reality of separation has been the greatest and sometimes the only sorrow in the lot of united couples. Many very touching inscriptions have been found in the Catacombs at Rome, but none more touching than those which record this separation. Here is one of them. It is in memory of a very young wife, who must have been married when little more than a child (fourteen), and then left by her husband, a soldier, called off probably to serve in the provinces. He returns to find his poor little wife dead. Was she martyred or did she fret herself to death, or was she carried off with malaria in the Catacombs? We know nothing; but here is her epitaph full of simple pathos, and warm as with the very life blood: "To Domina, 375 A.D., my sweetest and most innocent wife, who lived sixteen years and four months, and was married two years, with whom I was not able to live more than six months, during which time I showed her my love as I felt it; none else so loved each other." When Sir Albert Morton died, his wife's grief was such that she shortly followed him, and was laid by his side. Wotton's two lines on the event have been celebrated as containing a volume in seventeen words:

"He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died."

When Colonel Hutchinson, the noble Commonwealth officer, felt himself dying, knowing the deep sorrow which his death would occasion to his wife, he left this message, which was conveyed to her: "Let her, as she is above other women, show herself on this occasion a good Christian, and above the pitch of ordinary women." Faithful to his injunction, instead of lamenting his loss, she indulged her sorrow in depicting her husband as he had lived. "They who dote on mortal excellences," she says, in her Introduction to the "Life," "when, by the inevitable fate of all things frail, their adored idols are taken from them, may let loose the winds of passion to bring in a flood of sorrow, whose ebbing tides carry away the dear memory of what they have lost; and when comfort is essayed to such mourners, commonly all objects are removed out of their view which may with their remembrance renew the grief; and in time these remedies succeed, and oblivion's curtain is by degrees drawn over the dead face; and things less lovely are liked, while they are not viewed together with that which was most excellent. But I, that am under a command not to grieve at the common rate of desolate women, while I am studying which way to moderate my woe, and if it were possible to augment my love, I can for the present find out none more just to your dear father, nor consolatory to myself, than the preservation of his memory, which I need not gild with such flattering commendations as hired preachers do equally give to the truly and titularly honourable. A naked undressed narrative, speaking the simple truth of him, will deck him with more substantial glory than all the panegyrics the best pens could ever consecrate to the virtues of the best men."

When death removed Stella from Swift, and he was left alone to think of what he had lost, he described her as "the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with." Henceforward he must strive and suffer alone. The tenderness, of which his attachment to Stella had been the strongest symptom, deeply as it had struck its roots into his nature, withered into cynicism. But a lock of Stella's hair is said to have been found in Swift's desk, when his own fight was ended, and on the paper in which it was wrapped were written words that have become proverbial for the burden of pathos that their forced brevity seems to hide--"Only a woman's hair." It is for each reader to read his own meaning into them.

Dr. Johnson's wife was querulous, exacting, old, and the reverse of beautiful, and yet a considerable time after her death he said that ever since the sad event he seemed to himself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction or fixed point of view; a gloomy gazer on the world to which he had little relation. After recording some good resolution in his Journal he was in the habit since her death of writing after it his wife's name--"Tetty." It is only a word; but how eloquent it is! When a certain Mr. Edwards asked him if he had ever known what it was to have a wife, Johnson replied: "Sir, I have known what it was to have a wife, and (in a solemn, tender, faltering tone) I have known what it was to _lose a wife_. I had almost broke my heart." Nor did he allow himself to forget this experience. To New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Day, and his own birthday, which he set apart as sacred days dedicated to solemn thought and high communion with his own soul, he added _the day of his wife's death_.

Nor are such separations less felt in humble life. A year or two ago the newspapers in describing a colliery accident related that upon the tin water-bottle of one of the dead men brought out of the Seaham Pit, there was scratched, evidently with a nail, the following letter to his wife: "DEAR MARGARET,--There was forty of us altogether at 7 A.M., some was singing hymns, but my thought was on my little Michael. I thought that him and I would meet in heaven at the same time. Oh, dear wife, God save you and the children, and pray for myself. Dear wife, farewell. My last thoughts are about you and the children. Be sure and learn the children to pray for me. Oh, what a terrible position we are in.--MICHAEL SMITH, 54, Henry Street." The little Michael he refers to was his child whom he had left at home ill. The lad died on the day of the explosion.

A writer on _The Orkneys and Shetland_ tells the following. A native of Hoy went one day to his minister and said, "Oh! sir, but the ways of Providence are wonderful! I thought I had met with a sair misfortune when I lost baith my coo and my wife at aince over the cliff, twa months sin; but I gaed over to Graemsay, and I hae gotten a far better coo and a far bonnier wife."

That a wife is not always so easily replaced is evident from the following letter which appeared in the Belfast papers: "SIR,--I request permission to inform your readers of the fair sex that I have just received a letter from a young man residing in a rapidly-rising town of a few months' growth, and terminus of several railways, in one of the Western States of America, telling me that he has lost his wife, and would wish to get another one--a nice little Irish girl, just like the other one; that she should be 'between twenty and twenty-five years of age, of good habits, of good forme, vertchaus, and a Protestant.' My correspondent, who is a perfect stranger to me, informs me that he is 28 years of age, and 'ways' 150 lbs.; that he is a carpenter by trade, and owns a farm of 65 acres, and that he can give the best of references. I am writing to him for his references and his photograph, and also for a photograph and description of his late wife, on receipt of which I will address you again.--VERE FOSTER, Belfast, Jan. 5, 1883."

This poor, uneducated carpenter was so happy with his nice little Irish girl that when taken from him he could not help trying to get another one just like her, and sends more than three thousand miles for a chip of the old block. If any blame him for seeking for a second wife let them reflect on the awful solitude of a backwoods settlement when the prairie flower represented by a nice little Irish girl had faded and died. By desiring to marry again he paid the highest compliment to his first wife, for he showed that she had made him a happy man.

It is sometimes said that the happiest days of a man's life is the day of his wedding and the day of his wife's funeral. And the _Quarterly Review_, in an article on Church Bells, related that one Thomas Nash in 1813 bequeathed fifty pounds a year to the ringers of the Abbey Church at Westminster, "on condition of their ringing on the whole peal of bells, with clappers muffled, various _solemn and doleful changes_ on the 14th of May in every year, being the anniversary of my wedding-day; and also on the anniversary of my decease to ring a grand bob-major, and _merry, mirthful peals_, unmuffled, in joyful commemoration of my happy release from domestic tyranny and wretchedness."

As a rule, however, no matter how much a husband and wife have tormented each other the separation when it comes is very painful. How true to life is Trollope's description of the effect of Mrs. Proudie's death upon the bishop. "A wonderful silence had come upon him which for the time almost crushed him. He would never hear that well-known voice again! He was free now. Even in his misery--for he was very miserable--he could not refrain from telling himself that. No one could now press uncalled for into his study, contradict him in the presence of those before whom he was bound to be authoritative, and rob him of all his dignity. There was no one else of whom he was afraid. She had at least kept him out of the hands of other tyrants. He was now his own master, and there was a feeling--I may not call it of relief, for as yet there was more of pain in it than of satisfaction--a feeling as though he had escaped from an old trouble at a terrible cost, of which he could not as yet calculate the amount.... She had in some ways, and at certain periods of his life, been very good to him. She had kept his money for him and made things go straight when they had been poor. His interests had always been her interests. Without her he would never have been a bishop. So, at least, he told himself now, and so told himself probably with truth. She had been very careful of his children. She had never been idle. She had never been fond of pleasure. She had neglected no acknowledged duty. He did not doubt that she was now on her way to heaven. He took his hands down from his head, and clasping them together, said a little prayer. It may be doubted, whether he quite knew for what he was praying. The idea of praying for her soul, now that she was dead, would have scandalized him. He certainly was not praying for his own soul. I think he was praying that God might save him from being glad that his wife was dead.... But yet his thoughts were very tender to her. Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. We want that which we have not; and especially that which we can never have. She had told him in the very last moments of her presence with him that he was wishing that she were dead, and he had made her no reply. At the moment he had felt, with savage anger, that such was his wish. Her words had now come to pass, and he was a widower; and he assured himself that he would give all that he possessed in the world to bring her back again."

Richard Cobden once asked in reference to a famous and successful but unscrupulous statesman, "How will it be with him when all is retrospect?" Husband and wife, how will it be when death has separated you, and your married life is retrospect?

Many a man or woman, going on from day to day in the faithful performance of duty, without any sweet token of approval to cheer the sometimes weary path, would find it act as the very wine of life could he or she only hear by anticipation some few of the passionate words of appreciation or regret that will be spoken when the faithful heart, stilled for ever, can no longer be moved by the tone of loving commendation. Do not in this way let us keep all the good hermetically sealed up till the supreme touch of death shall force it open.

"Alas! how often at our hearths we see--
And by our side--angels about to be!"

But somehow the selfish absorption of life acts as a soporific to our truer sense, and our "eyes are holden that we do not know them," until, alas! it is too late, and they have "passed out of our sight."

"Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas,
In the old likeness that I knew,
I would be so faithful, so loving, Douglas--
Douglas, Douglas! tender and true!

Never a scornful word should grieve ye,
I'd smile on ye, sweet as the angels do;
Sweet as your smile on me shone ever--
Douglas, Douglas! tender and true."

"The grave buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies mouldering before him?" If the love that is lavished on the graves of dead friends were bestowed on living darlings in equal measure, family life would be a different thing from what it sometimes is.

As George IV. put on the statue of George III. "pater optimus," best of fathers, though he had embittered his father's life, so many a husband tries to relieve his remorse by extravagantly praising the wife who when alive never received any kindness from him. What is hell but truths known too late? and the surviving one of a married pair has to the end of life, if duty in matrimony has been neglected, the incessant wish that something were otherwise than it had been. The one regret to avoid is, that when married life is over, over for ever, to the survivor should come the unutterable but saddening thought, that now, in the late autumn of life, when experience can be no longer of any possible value, he or she understands, at last understands, all that the chivalry of holy matrimony implies and claims on both sides, in manly forbearance, in delicate thoughtfulness, in loving courtesy. Too late now!

Over the triple doorways of the cathedral of Milan there are three inscriptions spanning the splendid arches. Over one is carved a beautiful wreath of roses, and underneath is the legend "All that which pleases is only for a moment." Over the other is a sculptured cross, and there are the words, "All that which troubles is but for a moment." Underneath the great central entrance in the main aisle is the inscription, "That only is which is eternal." Make the most of the happiness of your marriage, and the least of its vexations, for it is a relation that will not last long.

_Respice finem_, the old monks used to say in their meditations on life. And if we would behave rightly in married life we must "consider the end." Affections are never deepened and refined until the possibility of loss is felt. "Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss." Spare all hard words, omit all slights, for before long there will be a hearse standing at your door that will take away the best friend that you have on earth--a good wife. Then the silence will be appalling; the vacancies ghastly. Reminiscences will rush on the heart like a mountain current over which a cloud has burst. Her jewels, her books, her pictures, her dresses will be put into a trunk and the lid will come down with a heavy thud, as much as to say--"Dead! The morning dead. The night dead. The world dead." Oh! man, if in that hour you think of any unkind word uttered, you will be willing to pay in red coin of blood every drop from your heart, if you could buy it back. Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding the sensitiveness of a wife or husband--it is the omission of these things which is irreparable: irreparable, when we look to the purest enjoyment which might have been our own; irreparable when we consider the compunction which belongs to deeds of love not done.

Carlyle never meant to be unkind to his wife, but in his late years he thought that he had sacrificed her health and happiness in his absorption in his work; that he had been negligent, inconsiderate, and selfish. "For many years after she had left him," writes Mr. Froude, "when he passed the spot where she was last seen alive, he would bare his grey head in the wind and rain--his features wrung with unavailing sorrow. 'Oh!' he often said to me, 'if I could but see her for five minutes to assure her that I had really cared for her throughout all that! But she never knew it, she never knew it!'"

Sorrow, however, may teach us wisdom, and if we study patience in the school of Christ much comfort will from thence be derived. And much hope too. He is the resurrection and the life, and if we believe in Him we believe that there is a Friend in whose arms we ourselves shall fall asleep, and to whose love we may trust for the reunion, sooner or later, of the severed links of sacred human affection.

"And in that perfect Marriage Day
All earth's lost love shall live once more;
All lack and loss shall pass away,
And all find all not found before;
Till all the worlds shall live and glow
In that great love's great overflow."

INDEX.

Adam and Eve, their history repeated every day, 61;
had no relations-in-law in Paradise, 110.

Advertisement, An, 34.

Affection, A genius for, 39;
conjugal, largely depends on mutual confidence, 106.

Age, Marriageable, of women, 37;
proper for a husband, 48.

A Kempis, Thomas, Wise sentence of, 220.

Alderman, Exclamation of the, 208.

Alleine, Joseph, describes the inconveniences of a wife, 11.

Appearances not to be entirely disregarded nor regarded too much, 126-8.

Arnold, Dr., on dying childless, 148;
as a father, 179-80;
adapted correction to each particular case, 208;
the "almost awful happiness" of his domestic life, 256.

Astor, John Jacob, on the care of property, 35.

Attila, A domestic, 59.

Aurelius, Marcus, on co-operation, 216.

Bacon, Lord, on marriage and celibacy, 14;
on abridging expenses, 120;
quotes the saying of a wise man, 128.

Baird, Sir David, Anecdote of, 218.

Baxter nursed in prison by his wife, 23.

Beaconsfield, Lord, his opinion about marrying, 10;
anecdote of, 23;
his description of his wife, 41.

Beauty, Not wise to marry for, 36;
health a condition of, 245.

Bells, why are ladies like them? 40;
article on, in the _Quarterly Review_, 266.

Belfast papers, The, letter in, 265.

Bismarck, Prince, made by his wife, 23.

Blaikie, Professor, on "How to get rid of trouble," 195.

Boswell, his "matrimonial thought," 82.

Braxfield, Lord, on the benefit of being hanged, 62.

Bridegroom, Dutch courage of, 72;
driven to desperation, 83.

Bronte, Charlotte, her last words, 260.

Bunyan shown the pathway to heaven by his wife, 22.

"Buried Alive," a Russian story referred to, 205.

Burke on his domestic felicity, 23;
describes his wife's eyes, 189.

Burleigh, Lord, advice to his son on the choice of a wife, 42.

Burmah, Young men of, cured of aversion to marriage, 12.

Bermuda, Servants in, 129.

Burns on the qualities of a good wife, 41.

Burton, Robert, for and against matrimony, 13, 14;
tells of a remedy for a husband's impatience, 203;
gives instances of love surviving marriage, 255-6.

Byron, Lord, tells a story of a learned Jew, 88;
spoiled by his mother, 166.

Carlyle, Thomas, his inscription upon his wife's tombstone, 28;
advice to the discontented, 62;
cautions a servant "abounding in grace," 135;
the way he and his wife pulled together, 218;
his definition of "holy," 244;
on dyspepsia, 246;
his way of expressing sympathy, 247;
birthday presents to his wife, 257-8;
his remorse, 270.

Carlyle, Mrs., her advice, 49;
her "mutinous maids of all work," 135;
describes Mrs. Leigh Hunt's housekeeping, 224-5;
her culinary trials, 225;
"If he would only be satisfied!" 237.

Castile, Admiral of, his saying about marrying a wife, 10.

Catacombs at Rome, Inscriptions in, 136, 261.

Celibacy has less pleasure and less pain than marriage, 10;
an unnatural state, 16.

Cobbe, Miss, on the moral atmosphere of the house, 194.

Cobbett on the wretchedness of old bachelorship, 17;
on industry in a wife, 39;
"comforts" his wife, 96;
an interesting bit of autobiography, 105;
a soldier's philosophy, 172;
"He never disappointed me in his life," 241.

Conjugal felicity, Secret of, 6;
largely depends on mutual confidence, 106.

Connoisseur, Hasty exclamation of a, 65.

Courtship, Love-making should not end with, 5, 229;
people unknown to each other during, 53, 80;
with lawyer's advice, 125;
the tempestuous love of does not remain, 255.

_Chambers' Journal_ gives instances of matrimonial tribulation, 57.

Chesterfield on behaviour to servants, 134.

Chicago, A young lady of, 124.

Children, Only, 149;
quality more to be desired than quantity of, 150;
imitate their elders, 158.

China, Narrative of a journey through the south border lands of, 91.

Clarendon printing-office, 58.

Clergymen, Sons of, 173.

Clerk, A married, excuses himself, 148.

Cowper and his mother, 164.

Curran felt his wife and children tugging at his gown, 24;
his mother and father, 165.

Dale, R. W., of Birmingham, believes in falling in love, 47.

Daughters, Fourteen of my, 150.

David, King, lays up materials for his son, 145.

Dealer, A Scotch, "tried _baith_," 32;
confesses the failings of a horse, 235.

De Sales, St. Francis, on quarrels, 103.

De Tocqueville, Letter of, about his wife, 21.

Dickens tells an American story, 50.

Dictionary, a town--why so called, 55.

Digestion disturbed by "a few words," 208.

Diogenes, why he struck a father, 173.

Dress indicates character, 39.

Dulness a "serious complaint," 89.

Dunmow flitch, The, 212.

Edison, Anecdote of, 33.

Emerson thinks children always interesting, 147.

Eliot, George, on marriage, 6;
on disappointment, 57;
remarks about the best society, 115,
weak women, 145;
"Silas Marner" referred to, 155, 215, 236.

Ellenborough, Lord, Anecdote of, 188.

Erskine illustrates the fact that union is strength, 216.

Eve "kept silence to hear her husband talk," 209.

Exactingness causes domestic misery, 219.

Family, A "large little," 149;
what constitutes a large, _ibid._;
government of, 182-3.

Fanshawe, Sir Richard, and his wife, 107-9.

Faraday on his marriage, 256.

Farmer, country, a, Remark of, 83;
story of, 204.

Farrar, Archdeacon, on non-appreciation, 3.

"Faults are thick where love is thin," 61;
difficult to find fault well, 207.

Financier, Saying of the French, 245.

Flaxman, sculptor, and his wife, 25-6.

Foote, Sam, and his mother, 167.

Franklin, Benjamin, approves of marriage, 16;
afraid of luxury, 121;
answers the question, "Of what use is it?" 146;
on "Idle Silence," 194.

Fry, Mrs. Elizabeth, A wish of, 261.

Fuller on domestic jars, 5;
on the obedience of a wife, 99.

Furnishing, its importance, 113;
A safe rule in, 115:
its expense, 118.

Garfield, President, U.S., reverenced boys, 190.

Garth, Sir Samuel, Anecdote of, 251.

Girl, Question of a little, 205.

Goethe and his mother, 163;
turned every affliction into a poem, 198.

Gough, temperance orator, gives the case of an American convict, 111.

_Graphic, The_, Case quoted from, 110.

Gray the poet grateful to his mother, 164.

Green, John Richard, the historian, his life prolonged by his wife, 96.

Guizot, his estimate of domestic affections, 23.

Hall, Robert, preacher, reproves a young mother, 170;
"I never lived with her!" 223;
his brave patience, 253.

Hall, Mr. S. C, on the fifty-fourth anniversary of his marriage, 259.

Hamilton, Sir William, greatly assisted by his wife, 27.

Hare, Mrs., Saying of about her husband, 4.

Happiness, A natural genius for, 199;
the most powerful of tonics, 247.

Hawthorne, Story of, 95.

Helps, Sir Arthur, quoted, 67.

Henderson, Sir Edmund, on civility, 184.

Hill, Roland, his practical view of religion, 186.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, describes the effect of an headache, 246.

Home, a school of manners, 190;
the real happiness of, 192, 200, 202.

Honeymoon, The, "above the snowline," 81;
in winter, 82;
halcyon period, 84;
two opposite opinions about, quoted, 85.

Hood, his gratitude to his wife, 27.

Housekeeping, Knowledge of, 38, 227.

Huber worked with the eyes of his wife, 26.

Humour, Good, has a magical power, 229.

Hunt, Leigh, his happiness in his wife and children, 11;
saying of, 224.

Husbands, absentee, 94, 240;
may be too much at home, 95;
the management of, 230-2;
as much to blame as wives, 236;
often fail to express love, 237;
the duties of, 217, 237, &c.

Hutchinson, Colonel, his generosity to his wife, 123;
his message to her, 262.

Huxley, Professor, on the "educational abomination of desolation," 174.

Incumbent, A Hampshire, on blunders made in the Marriage Service, 87.

Insurance, Life, 124.

Irishman, The, his reason for disagreeing with his wife, 6;
sayings of, 55, 203, 219.

Jameson, Mrs., 101.

Jealousy, amusing case of, 104;
incompatible with love of the highest kind, 106.

Jerrold, Douglas, a comment of, 48;
defines the shirt of Nessus, 125.

Jews, Anecdotes of, 56, 88.

Johnson, Dr., his estimate of marriage, 16, 32;
his journey to Derby to be married, 74;
his definition of the honeymoon, 80;
"Ignorance, Madam," 102;
influence of little things upon happiness, 114;
on spending money, 120-1;
answers the question, "Would you advise me to marry?" 143;
"Ay, sir, fifty thousand," 213;
a wife should be a companion, 228;
on sickness, 246;
"Tetty," 263.

Keats, 92.

Kemble, Frances, on feminine fashion, 145;
on domestic economy, 224.

Kingsley, Canon, sketch of as a father, 175-8;
letter to his wife, 254.

Lady, Story of a deaf and dumb, 152;
a Scotch, 9, 71, 90;
an old, on the loss of children, 153.

Laird, A Scotch, answer of, to his butler, 230.

Lamb, Charles, and his sister, 94;
on children, 152.

Landels, Dr., describes a husband, 92.

Lansdell, Dr., tells of an ancient Russian custom, 99;
of a convict servant, 133.

"Laugh and be well," 199.

Leg, a well-formed and a crooked, 61.

Legend, An old heathen, 232.

Levite, An humble-minded, 187.

Little things, effect of, on happiness, 4, 7, 193, 241.

Locke, John, on keeping accounts, 125.

Longfellow, his lines to a child, 154.

Lottery, Is marriage a? 43.

Luther, his estimate of marriage, and of his wife, 16, 23;
letter to his little boy, 180-1.

Macaulay, Lord, at home, 242.

Macdonald, George, his lines on "The Baby," 160.

Maginn, his answer, 126.

Martineau, Harriet, and her servants, 135.

Maurice, Rev. F. D., answer of, 98.

Mayoralty of Paris, Marriage at, 73.

Milan, Cathedral of, inscriptions over the doorways, 269.

Mill, John Stuart, dedication of his essay "On Liberty," 29.

Minister, A Scotch, 10, 43, 67, 76, 119, 215, 255.

Money, Do not marry for, 35;
necessary for marriage, 119;
we should be careful but not penurious, 122;
"Spent it all," 123;
a wife's allowance, 124.

Monotony makes men fractious, 205.

Moore, Sir John, on the lottery of marriage, 43.

More, Sir Thomas, his home, 69.

Morton, Sir Albert, grief of his wife for him, 262.

Mothers, true and false love of, 167;
their instruction never lost, 168.

Nabal and Abigail, 59.

Nagging often caused by _ennui_, 230.

Napier, Sir Charles, benefited by hard work, 249.

Napier, Lady, the literary helper of her husband, 27.

Napoleon Buonaparte on mothers, 162;
referred to, 173.

Nasmyth, James, his married life, 256.

Necker, Madame, Anecdote of, 49.

Nursery-maid, Rejoinder of a, 150.

Orkneys and Shetland, The, a writer on, 264.

Parents, who should and who should not be, 144;
rules for, 182.

Pasteur, M., his marriage, 74.

Payn, Mr. James, asks "Where is the children's fun?" 174.

Perthes, Caroline, and her husband, 238, 256.

Pitt, his butcher's bill, 120.

Plato, his theory about marriage, 54;
on just penalties, 198.

Pliny the Younger, Letter of, 90.

Portia, 59.

Praise a positive duty, 194.

Pulpit, Suggestion from an American, 5.

Putting things, The art of, 207.

Quaker, Saying of an old, 155.

Queen, Her Majesty the, describes the Prince Consort, 243.

Quickly, Mrs., her advice to Falstaff, 7.

Record, The Sanitary, enumerates some common mistakes, 250.

Religion required in marriage, 8, 76;
grotesque perversions of, 183.

Remedy, A very simple, 250.

Reynolds tells of a free-and-easy actor, 209.

Rhodophe, Anecdote of, 53.

Richter, his estimate of a wife, 20;
on love, 187;
on childhood, 190.

Robertson (of Brighton) on the drudgery of domestic life, 70;
a girl's gratitude for a kind look, 210.

Robinson, Professor, on infancy, 159.

Rochefoucauld, An untrue remark of, 255.

Romilly, Sir Samuel, his experience, 30.

Sainte-Beuve on family life, 70.

Scotchman, A, on the Sabbath, 183.

Scott, Sir Walter, ascribed his success to his wife, and to his
mother, 25, 163.

Seneca quoted, 62.

Sheridan, his poetical defence of Lady Erskine, 189.

Siddons, Mrs., at home, 227.

Silence may be an instrument of torture, 209.

Simonides never regretted holding his tongue, 202.

Smith, Michael, Letter of, 264.

Smith, Sydney, his definition of marriage, 5;
on the rights and feelings of others, 185;
"All this is the lobster," 198;
on late hours, 252;
his cheerful spirit, 253.

Smyth, H., claims L10,000 for his murdered wife, 31.

Socrates, Quiet remark of, 61;
asks for double fees, 202.

Somerville, Mary, anecdote in the memoirs of, 8;
a good housekeeper, 227.

Spencer, Herbert, on preparation for parenthood, 140, 143;
on physical sins, 253.

Sterne, on the best of men, 61;
answers Smelfungus, 246.

Steward, A Scotch, answer of, 35.

Stratocles a woman-hater, 15.

Submission, Cheerful, of the poor, 197.

Sussex, labourer, a, asks a question, 128.

Sutherland, Duke of, believes he is going to be married, 72.

Swift and his cook, 58;
letter to a young lady, 126;
his answer to a Dublin lady, 127;
reason why so few marriages are happy, 222.

Talmud, The Jewish, on the treatment of women, 186.

Taylor, Jeremy, on choice in matrimony, 45;
offences to be avoided by the newly-married, 102;
on children, 147;
a quaint illustration, 220;
on the dominion of a husband, 239.

Thackeray, on the sort of wives men want, 41;
on hard work, 249.

Thrale, Mrs., letter of, 54.

Trollope describes the idea women have of men, 30;
Mrs. Proudie's death, 266.

Trouble, how it may be effaced, 196-8.

Walpole, Sir Robert, saying of, 188.

Ward, Artemus, and Betsy Jane, 50;
introduced to Brigham Young's mother-in-law, 109.

Webster, what he thought of marriage, 66.

Weinsberg, women remove their valuables from, 31.

Weller, Mr., on matrimony as a teacher, 66.

Wellington, Duke of, on paying bills, 125;
his cook, 136.

Wesley, Mrs., as a mother, 165.

Westminster Abbey, Gravestone in Cloisters of, 148.

Wheatly on the wedding-ring, 78.

Wife, A good, more than a cook and housekeeper, 228;
requires change and recreation, 229, 240.

Wilberforce, Miss, 221.

Wilde, Oscar, on the photographs of relations, 115.

Wish, The old wedding, 212.

Woman, Definitions of, 37, 222, 234;
value of her advice, 239.

Word, The last, what is the use of? 204.

Word-battles, Matrimonial, 206.

Wordsworth, Anecdote of, 31.

Young, Brigham, his doctrine, 19;
his mother-in-law--how many? 109.

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Autumn-Christmas Season, 1886.

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"HISTORIA SANCTAE CRUCIS." _With Illustrations._

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=THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF THE CROSS=: A Series of Sixty-Four Woodcuts, from a Dutch book published by VELDENER, A.D. 1483. With an Introduction written and Illustrated by JOHN ASHTON, and a Preface by the Rev. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A. Square 8vo., bound in parchment, old style, brass clasps. 10s. 6d.

"The mediaeval romance of the Cross was very popular. It occurs in
a good number of authors, and is depicted in a good many churches
in stained glass.... It would seem that it was made up by some
romancer out of all kinds of pre-existing material, with no other
object than to write a religious novel for pious readers, to
displace the sensuous novels which were much in vogue."--FROM THE
PREFACE.

This pictorial version of the Legend is taken from a work that is now almost unique, only three copies being known to be in existence. The Editorial portions contain, besides a full paraphrase of the woodcuts, a fac-simile reprint of the Legend from Caxton's "Golden Legends of the Saints," also much curious information respecting the early History of the Legend, the controversies in which it has been involved, and the question of relics. Copies are also given of some Fifteenth Century frescoes of English workmanship formerly existing at Stratford-on-Avon. Altogether the book forms an interesting memorial of the quaint lore that has gathered round this "religious novel" of the Middle Ages.

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A VOLUME OF MEDIAEVAL ROMANCES.

EDITED BY JOHN ASHTON.

=ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY=: Told and Illustrated in Fac-simile, by JOHN ASHTON, Author of "The Dawn of the Nineteenth Century in England," &c. Forty-six Illustrations. Demy 8vo., cloth elegant, gilt tops. 18s.

The "ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY" were the Novels of the Middle Ages, from the 13th to the 16th centuries. They are highly sensational, full of incident, and never prolix. To render these Romances more interesting to the general reader, Mr. Ashton has fac-similed a number of the contemporary engravings, which are wonderfully quaint, and throw much light on the Manners and Costumes of the period.

"An interesting feature in the book consists in the
illustrations, which are fac-similes done by the author himself,
and done with much success, from the early engravings.... This is
likely to prove a useful and welcome book."--_Contemporary
Review._

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=LEGENDS AND POPULAR TALES OF THE BASQUE PEOPLE.= By MARIANA MONTEIRO. With full-page Illustrations in Photogravure by HAROLD COPPING. Fcap. 4to., cloth. 10s. 6d.

CONTENTS.

I. Aquelarre.
II. Arguiduna.
III. Maitagarri.
IV. Roland's Bugle-Horn.
V. Jaun-Zuria, Prince of Erin.
VI. The Branch of White Lilies.
VII. The Song of Lamia.
VIII. Virgin of the Five Towns.
IX. Chaunt of the Crucified.
X.-XI. The Raids. The Holy War.
XII. The Prophecy of Lara.
XIII. Hurca Mendi.

Fine edition of 100 copies of the above, medium 4to., numbered and signed by the Author, printed on Dutch hand-made paper, with India-proofs of the Photogravures L1 1s. net.

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folk-lore they will be as a mine of newly-discovered wealth. As
to the literary merit of the book, it is by no means
inconsiderable."--_Scotsman._

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=MODERN HINDUISM=: Being an account of the Religion and Life of the Hindus in Northern India. By W. J. WILKINS, of the London Missionary Society, Author of "Hindu Mythology--Vedic and Puranic." Demy 8vo., cloth. 16s.

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A GIFT-BOOK FOR GIRLS.

=IN THE TIME OF ROSES=: A Tale of Two Summers. Told and Illustrated by FLORENCE and EDITH SCANNELL, Author and Artist of "Sylvia's Daughters." Thirty-two full-page and other Illustrations. Square Imp. 16mo., cloth. 5s.

CONTENTS.

Capri.--Isolina.--"Good-bye, Capri."--The Yellow Cottage.--The School Treat.--Home Again!--The Garden Party.--Geraldine makes a discovery.--Isolina's Flight.--Wedding Bells.

"A very charming story, superior in literary style and as food
for the mind and the taste to most books written for girls. Miss
Edith Scannell's illustrations are very happy."--_Scotsman._

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A CHILDREN'S STORY-BOOK.

=PRINCE PEERLESS=: A Fairy-Folk Story-Book. By the Hon. MARGARET COLLIER (Madame Galletti di Cadilhac), Author of "Our Home by the Adriatic." Illustrated by the Hon. JOHN COLLIER. Square Imp. 16mo., cloth. 5s.

CONTENTS.

Fairy Folk.--The Great Snow Mountain.--The Ill-Starred Princess.--The Sick Fairy.--Two Fairies.--The Shadow World.--Prince Peerless.--Something New.

"Simply delightful in style and fancy, and in its perfect
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read with no less enjoyment for their literary and artistic
excellence by their elders. The illustrations by the Hon. John
Collier are artistical and beautiful."--_Scotsman._

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A BOY'S STORY-BOOK.

=BOYS' OWN STORIES.= By ASCOTT R. HOPE, Author of "Stories of Young Adventurers," "Stories out of School Time," &c. Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo., cloth. 5s.

"This is a really admirable selection of genuine narrative and
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'Adventures of a Ship boy' and 'A Smith among
Savages.'"--_Saturday Review._

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=TALES OF THE CALIPH.= By AL ARAWIYAH. Crown 8vo., cloth. 2s. 6d.

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By Author of "How to be Happy though Married."

"=MANNERS MAKYTH MAN.=" Imp. 16mo., cloth, 6s.; fine edition, bevelled edges, in box. 7s. 6d.

_The First Edition of "Manners Makyth Man" was exhausted on the day of Publication. A Second Edition is now ready._

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are often only substitutes for good manners, but rather to
manners in the old sense of the word which we see in the text,
'Evil communications corrupt good manners.'"

"The volume is a bright one, and should rival its predecessor in
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=A COMTIST LOVER=, and Other Studies. By ELIZABETH RACHEL CHAPMAN, Author of "The New Godiva," "A Tourist Idyl," &c. Crown 8vo., cloth. 6s.

CONTENTS.--Part I.--A Comtist Lover: Being a Dialogue on Positivism and the Zeitgeist--The Extension of the Law of Kindness: Being an Essay on the Rights of Animals. Part II.--The Delphine of Madame de Stael--Some Immortality--Thoughts--Some Novels of William Black.

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"LAYS OF A LAZY MINSTREL."

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Fine Edition of 50 copies of the above, crown 4to., printed on Dutch hand-made paper, each copy numbered and signed by the Author. L1 1s. net.

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=SAINT HILDRED=: A Romaunt in Verse. By GERTRUDE HARRADEN. Illustrated by J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE. Small crown 8vo. 2s. 6d.

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PRIZE BOOK FOR CHILDREN.

=THE BIRD'S NEST=, and Other Sermons for Children of all Ages. By Rev. SAMUEL COX, D.D., Author of "Expositions," &c. Imp. 16mo., cloth. 6s.

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great attraction, and to whose hearts its words cannot fail to
win their way."--_Church Sunday School Magazine._

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CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES.

=THE BIBLE AND THE AGE=; or, An Elucidation of the Principles of a Consistent and Verifiable Interpretation of Scripture. By CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD, M.A., and B.M. Oxon., Author of "New Studies in Christian Theology," &c. Demy 8vo., cloth. 10s. 6d.

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=THE BERWICK HYMNAL.= Edited by the Rev. A. W. OXFORD, M.A., Vicar of St. Luke's, Berwick Street, Soho. Imp. 32mo. 2s.

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=THE PAROUSIA.= A Critical Inquiry into the New Testament Doctrine of Our Lord's Second Coming. By the Rev. J. S. RUSSELL, M.A. New and cheaper Edition. Demy 8vo., cloth. 7s. 6d.

"Critical, in the best sense of the word. Unlike many treatises
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=ANNE GILCHRIST=: Her Life and Writings. Edited by HERBERT HARLAKENDEN GILCHRIST. Prefatory Notice by WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI. 10 Illusts. Demy 8vo., cloth. (_In preparation_). 16s.

I. Ancestry.--II. Childhood.--III. Schooldays.--IV. The Honeymoon.--V. The First Home.--VI. Life at Chelsea. VII. A Letter from Jane Carlyle.--VIII. A Present from Jane Carlyle.--IX. Dante Gabriel Rossetti.--X. Last Year of Life at 6, Great Cheyne Row.--XI Jane Welsh Carlyle writes to her Neighbour.--XII. Shottermill.--XIII. Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti.--XIV. Last Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle.--XV. Letter from Christian G. Rossetti.--XVI. Letter from Christian G. Rossetti.--XVII. Jenny.--XVIII. George Eliot.--XIX. The New Country.--XX. The Return.--XXI. Mary Lamb.--Essays.

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THE STORY OF THE NATIONS.

"The series is likely to be found indispensable in every school
library."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

A Series of Short Popular Histories, printed in good readable type, and forming handsome well-bound volumes. Crown 8vo., Illustrated and furnished with Maps and Indexes, price 5s. each.

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=ROME.= By ARTHUR GILMAN, M.A., Author of "A History of the American People," &c. Second Edition.

"We heartily commend this volume."--_Schoolmaster._

"A clear and complete view of the rise and progress of the Roman
nation."--_Congregationalist._

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=THE JEWS=: In Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Times. By Prof. J. K. HOSMER.

"The story of the Jews, when well told, as it is here, is one of
thrilling satisfaction, and fruitful in
instruction."--_Educational Times._

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=GERMANY.= Rev. S. BARING-GOULD, Author of "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages," &c.

"Mr. Baring-Gould tells his stirring tale with knowledge and
perspicuity. He is a thorough master of his subject."--_Globe._

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=CARTHAGE.= By Prof. ALFRED J. CHURCH, Author of "Stories from the Classics," &c.

"A trustworthy and well-balanced delineation of the part played
by Carthage in European history.... The illustrations are
numerous and have considerable archaeological
interest."--_Scotsman._

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=ALEXANDER'S EMPIRE.= By Prof. J. P. MAHAFFY, Author of "Social Life in Greece," &c.

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=THE MOORS IN SPAIN.= By STANLEY LANE POOLE, Author of "Studies in a Mosque," &c.

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=HUNGARY.= By Prof. VAMBERY, Author of "Travels in Central Asia," &c.

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=EGYPT.= By Prof. GEO. RAWLINSON, Author of "The Five Great Monarchies of the World," &c.

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=SPAIN.= By Rev. E. E. and SUSAN HALE.

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_Other Volumes in preparation._

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POLITICAL WORKS.

IRELAND AND HOME RULE.

=THE MAKING OF THE IRISH NATION=: AND THE FIRST-FRUITS OF FEDERATION. BY J. A. PARTRIDGE, Author of "Democracy: Its Factors and Conditions," "From Feudal to Federal," &c. Demy 8vo., cloth. 6s.

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often passionate and extreme, but the argumentation is throughout
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=LABOUR, LAND, AND LAW=: A Search for the Missing Wealth of the Working Poor. By WILLIAM A. PHILLIPS, Member of the Committee on Public Lands, Forty-third Congress, and on Banking and Currency, Forty-fifth Congress. Demy 8vo., cloth. 9s.

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=THE BALKAN PENINSULA.= By M. EMILE DE LAVELEYE. Translated by Mrs. THORPE. Edited and Revised for the English public by the Author. With a new chapter bringing events up to date. 8vo., cloth. _In preparation._

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=THE BRIDE OF GREENLAWNS=; or, William Woodman's Trust. A Parable of Mr. Gladstone and Ireland. Fcap. 8vo. 6d.

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"=DOTTINGS OF A DOSSER.=" Being Revelations of the Inner Life of Low London Lodging Houses. By HOWARD J. GOLDSMID. Fcap. 8vo. 1s.

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NEW EDITIONS.

BRIDAL GIFT EDITION OF

=HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED.= Being a Handbook to Marriage. By a Graduate in the University of Matrimony. Imp. 16mo., white vellum cloth, extra gilt, bev. boards, gilt edges, in box. 7s. 6d.

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* * * * *

=CHARLES DICKENS AS I KNEW HIM=: The Story of the Reading Tours in Great Britain and America (1866-1870). By GEORGE DOLBY. New and cheaper edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

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=THE DAWN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND=: A Social Sketch of the Times. By JOHN ASHTON, Author of "Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne," &c. Cheaper ed., in 1 vol. Illus. La. cr. 8vo., 10s. 6d.

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A New and Cheaper Edition (being the Fifth) of

=THE LIVES OF ROBERT & MARY MOFFAT.= By their Son, JOHN SMITH MOFFAT. With New Preface and Supplementary Chapter by the Author. Four Portraits, Four Illustrations (two of which are new), and Two Maps. Crown 8vo., cloth. 7s. 6d.

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=STUDIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN ITALY.= By VERNON LEE, Author of "Ottilie," &c. Demy 8vo., cloth. 7s. 6d.

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=EUPHORION=: Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance. By VERNON LEE, Author of "Belcaro," &c. Cheap Edition in one volume. Demy 8vo., cloth. 7s. 6d.

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