"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. Brontë, 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.