How to be Happy Though Married: Being a Handbook to Marriage by E. J. Hardy

Most of the books intended to give “counsel and ghostly strength” to newly-married people are so like a collection of sermons that they are given away rather than read. When writing the following pages I have remembered that the only kind of vice all people agree to shun is—advice, and have endeavoured to hide the pill. This is my excuse if at times I seem to fall into anecdotage.