3 MARCH 1928, Page 52

Answers to Questions on Choosing a Wife—in Fact and Fiction

1. Sir Thomas More, because " he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her sister in marriage preferred before her " (Thomas Roper's Life) 2. Dr. Primrose (Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield).-3. John Hutchinson (Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson).-4. Mr. Miniver (George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss).-5. Frank Armour (Sir Gilbert Parker's The Translation of a Savage).-6. Thomas Day, the author of Sandford and Merton.-7. Captain Reece, Com- mander of the Mantelpiece ' (Bab Ballade).-8. Mr. Collins "A clergynian like you must marry : choose properly, choose a gentlewoman for my sake and your own ; let her be an active, useful sort of person, not brought up high, but able to make a small income go a good way " (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice). —9. Mr. Turner, who was for some time engaged to Hannah More.-10. Mortimer Delville (Frances Burney's Cecilia).---

11. Farmer Sweedands (Eden Phillpotts's The Farmer's Wife).-- 12. Lord Burleigh (Precepts or Directions for the Wen-ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life).-13. Mark Tapley (Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit).