PRESS NOTICES ON THE FIRST EDITION.

"If wholesome advice you can brook,
When single too long you have tarried;
If comfort you'd gain from a book,
When very much wedded and harried;
No doubt you should speedily look,
In 'How to be Happy though Married!'"—Punch.

"We strongly recommend this book as one of the best of wedding presents.It is a complete handbook to an earthly Paradise, and its author may beregarded as the Murray of Matrimony and the Baedeker of Bliss."—PallMall Gazette.

"The author has successfully accomplished a difficult task in writing aclever and practical book on the important subject of matrimony.... Thisbook, which is at once entertaining and full of wise precepts, deservesto be widely read."—Morning Post.

"An entertaining volume.... The new guide to matrimonialfelicity."—Standard, Leader.

"A clever, readable, and entertaining book.... This deliciousbook."—Literary Churchman.

"This most elucidatory treatise.... As a 'companion to the honeymoon,'this orange blossom, true-love-knot ornamented volume should no doubt behighly esteemed."—Whitehall Review.

"The book is tastefully got up, and its contents adapt it very well fora present to a young bride."—Queen.

"One of the cleverest, best written books on the subject we have read atany time. To girls contemplating marriage, the volume should bepresented as a wedding gift.... Grave and gay, but never for a momentdull or tiresome. Each page sparkles with anecdote or suggestiveillustration."—Ladies' Treasury.

"A highly ornamental yet handy, well printed, and admirably writtenvolume."—The Lady.

"A rich store of entertaining anecdote, and full of thoughts beautiful,pious, and wise. Has a tasteful binding."—Bookseller.