Fanshawe, Sir Richard, and his wife, 107-9.
Faraday on his marriage, 256.
Farmer, country, a, Remark of, 83; story of, 204.
Farrar, Archdeacon, on non-appreciation, 3.
"Faults are thick where love is thin," 61; difficult to find fault well, 207.
Financier, Saying of the French, 245.
Flaxman, sculptor, and his wife, 25-6.
Foote, Sam, and his mother, 167.
Franklin, Benjamin, approves of marriage, 16; afraid of luxury, 121; answers the question, "Of what use is it?" 146; on "Idle Silence," 194.
Fry, Mrs. Elizabeth, A wish of, 261.
Fuller on domestic jars, 5; on the obedience of a wife, 99.
Furnishing, its importance, 113; A safe rule in, 115: its expense, 118.
Garfield, President, U.S., reverenced boys, 190.
Garth, Sir Samuel, Anecdote of, 251.
Girl, Question of a little, 205.
Goethe and his mother, 163; turned every affliction into a poem, 198.
Gough, temperance orator, gives the case of an American convict, 111.
_Graphic, The_, Case quoted from, 110.
Gray the poet grateful to his mother, 164.
Green, John Richard, the historian, his life prolonged by his wife, 96.
Guizot, his estimate of domestic affections, 23.
Hall, Robert, preacher, reproves a young mother, 170; "I never lived with her!" 223; his brave patience, 253.
Hall, Mr. S. C, on the fifty-fourth anniversary of his marriage, 259.
Hamilton, Sir William, greatly a.s.sisted by his wife, 27.
Hare, Mrs., Saying of about her husband, 4.
Happiness, A natural genius for, 199; the most powerful of tonics, 247.
Hawthorne, Story of, 95.
Helps, Sir Arthur, quoted, 67.
Henderson, Sir Edmund, on civility, 184.
Hill, Roland, his practical view of religion, 186.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, describes the effect of an headache, 246.
Home, a school of manners, 190; the real happiness of, 192, 200, 202.
Honeymoon, The, "above the snowline," 81; in winter, 82; halcyon period, 84; two opposite opinions about, quoted, 85.
Hood, his grat.i.tude to his wife, 27.
Housekeeping, Knowledge of, 38, 227.
Huber worked with the eyes of his wife, 26.
Humour, Good, has a magical power, 229.
Hunt, Leigh, his happiness in his wife and children, 11; saying of, 224.
Husbands, absentee, 94, 240; may be too much at home, 95; the management of, 230-2; as much to blame as wives, 236; often fail to express love, 237; the duties of, 217, 237, &c.
Hutchinson, Colonel, his generosity to his wife, 123; his message to her, 262.
Huxley, Professor, on the "educational abomination of desolation," 174.
Inc.u.mbent, A Hampshire, on blunders made in the Marriage Service, 87.
Insurance, Life, 124.
Irishman, The, his reason for disagreeing with his wife, 6; sayings of, 55, 203, 219.
Jameson, Mrs., 101.
Jealousy, amusing case of, 104; incompatible with love of the highest kind, 106.
Jerrold, Douglas, a comment of, 48; defines the shirt of Nessus, 125.
Jews, Anecdotes of, 56, 88.