The authors of this volume have attempted a task whose magnitude insures superficiality of treatment. For fear of leaving out some aspect of the marriage problem they have attempted at least to touch upon every phase of it with which the average woman might come into contact. The volume might well be termed a ready compendium of more or less elementary instruction, tinged with the emphasis of an ethical philosophy.

Reginning with a discussion of the various reasons why women want to marry, they carry the reader through an exposition of helpful and faulty attitudes and a discussion of the obstacles to successful partnership and of the best means of circumventing them.

No attempt is made to discuss the subtle and difficult problem of the choice of partner, and very little dynamic connection is discernible between the reasons given for marriage and the various difficulties that may be later encountered.