CONTENTS. Chapter H.-Woman as Mother. Maternal love-Its unselfishness-Its forgivingness and permanency- Pp. 3-34 vi CONTENTS. The various aspects of love-Character of a wife's love-Beauty and like The Ideal wife-Described by Sir Henry Taylor-By William Habington-The wife of De Tocqueville-Burke's portrait of his wife- Compared with Tennyson's "Isabel "—Robert Burns on the qualities of a good wife-Bunyan and his wife-Sir Thomas More's advice to a friend, in choosing a wife-Lord Burleigh's "Precepts or Directions"-Wife of George Washington-The Duchess de Chevreuse-Sir Henry Wotton's epitaph on Lady Morton-Lord Beaconsfield's dedication of " Sybil "— John Stuart Mill to his wife's memory-Thomas Hood and his wife- Herder quoted-Carlyle's epitaph on his wife-The late Lady Canning- The Countess Hahn-Hahn quoted-Mr. Hayward on Lady Palmerston— George Canning and his wife-Lady Hamilton-Professor Veitch quoted -William Blake, the mystic and poet-painter-His married life-Love unto death-Schiller and his wife-The story of Madame Roland-The story of Madame Lafayette-Her death described-Anguish of the wife who dis- covers that her husband has deceived her-Mrs. Bulstrode, in George Eliot's "Middlemarch"-What a wife forgives in her husband-The sin that is unforgiven-George Osborne in "Vanity Fair"-Emerson quoted 66 Amelia' -Thackeray quoted · Essentials of happy wedlock-Mutual understanding-Sir William and in choosing husbands-Words of caution and advice-A woman's crown CONTENTS. vii Chapter EEE-Woman as Maiden. A scene in the Southern Highlands of Scotland-Its analogy-Maiden- 66 female novelists, their purity of tone-Miss Kavanagh quoted-Ben Chapter E.-Woman in the World of Letters. Great advance made by women in literature-Katherine Philips- |