“It breathes a pure and elevated spirit, and has many thoughts which will
commend themselves sympathetically to the followers of all Christian
faiths.”—_New York Independent._
“The most marked literary production of the season.”—_San Francisco
Bulletin._
“A beautifully written volume.”—_Chicago Tribune._
“Here is thought on a noble theme, crystallized in beautiful, bright, and
lasting gems. It adorns, exalts, and etherealizes double-sexed humanity,
and endues marriage with supernal purity.”—_New Orleans Bulletin._
“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._