This text is amusingly illustrated and exemplified by the author of this work, who has given some sketches of speculating aunts, flirting daughters, and manœuvring mothers, that will startle some of our fashionable Anglo-Italians. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ The Errata have been applied to this text. ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).