"A work of sustained elegance of style. Whatever may be said of its opinions, Dr. Holcombe's essay must be credited with unexceptionable purity and refinement. Its tone is religious and its theology orthodox, accepting fully the supremacy of scriptural authority."-_Lippincott's Magazine._

"Rarely, if ever, has the marriage state been lifted into so lofty and elevating, so spiritualized, yet so sweetly human, an ideal."-_New Orleans Picayune._

"It is treated morally, religiously, and philosophically, and the result is a good and valuable book among the piles of trash now being uttered and written on the subject of woman."-_St. Louis Republican._