as you know, have a very great influence on the harmony and happiness of the married pair, however much the devout and the philosophizing philosophers may exaggerate in belittling their importance..

4 — Have you explained to her the factors that divide East from West, even those most strange and most disturbing to a Western girl who has never before today left the bounds of her own country?

5 — What is her parents' material and social posi-tion? Has she brothers and sisters? What is her age?

6 — Is she beautiful of face, of figure, and of dress? And do not forget your sensitive temperament in this regard!!..

7 — How is her health? For health is the fundamental factor in the making of a family. Look into this point with close attention, lest you be exposed to what your father was exposed to — a life embittered by the failing of my health, and by my not sharing with him in social and practical life.

8 — What is commonly said here among us is this: that the Englishwoman is not like the Frenchwoman, or the German, for example, in the management of household affairs as regards taste, and orderliness,

and cleanliness. And you know well what an effective influence this quality has upon home life, especially in this age when servants' wages are rising and their tyranny grows to a degree beyond imagining. Have you studied this side of Margaret's inclinations? Does she possess energy for work in the house? And are there, in her parents' house, the signs of true taste and cleanliness?..

I see no need to enlarge further upon each of these questions and to set out the consequences that follow from them. You have knowledge and understanding enough to make you careful in your directions. And I would not have put them to you in this form, asking your answer to them, but for my longing, and your father's, to form a distinct, clear picture of the woman who will share with us your love, and the care of you, and the concern for your comfort, and the securing of your happiness, should you determine to be joined to her.

Beyond that, we have nothing to say save one thing to which I wish to draw your attention: the difference of language, which is no less important than the other differences of race, especially with