Marriage and Marriages. By E. C. Harvey-Brooks. (Longmans and Co.
fis.)—This is an excellent book, full of good feeling and good sense. It is largely, we are given to understand, the outcome of personal experience, and the observations and conclusions which it sets forth are illustrated by examples from actual life. Having said so much, we are inclined to leave the book to the judgment of our readers. The subject is obviously one whore criticism, other than of the most general kind, is out of place. But we would specially commend the chapter headed "Xing and Queen?' The writer quotes at the beginning St. Paul's maxim, " Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands," and contrasts with it these words from a recent book : " Should a wife obey her husband ? Certainly not !" Without doubt this is a great difficulty in modern life. Woman is in a very different position from that which she occupied in St. Paul's time. Any sensible man will recognise this, and will modify accordingly in practice the application of the principle. Still, the principle must remain. There must be in the last resort the power for one of the two partners to say the final word. If there is not, the institution cannot survive.
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