First edition. Maroon cloth 12mo, 204, (4)p publisher's ads. Frontis portrait. Printed on pulp paper with expected discoloration and occasional fingersoil. Binding shaken, about VG with sunning to spine, bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Modern bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. 

Contains the text of 13 sermons first delivered at the Brooklyn Tabernacle in the winter of 1885-1886. It was quickly reissued as The Wedding Ring, a subtle change that makes it seem more appealing (Wedding is fun, Marriage is a chore). Contents: The Choice of a Wife, The Choice of a Husband, Clandestine Marriage, Matrimonial Harmony or Discord, Marital Duties, Costume and Morals, Duties of Wives to Husbands, Hotels versus Homes, The Domestic Circle, Sisters and Brothers, The Children's Patrimony, "Motherhood," Trials of Housekeeping.