text:  The husband in this case is another admirable specimen of the results of wedlock for life--he is a chattering shallow pretender--a political economist prodigiously dull and infinitely conceited--an exaggerated type of the Hume-Bowring statesman--and as is naturally to be expected our sympathies are awakened for the wretched wife and we rejoice to see that her beauty and talents her fine mind and pure ideas are appreciated by a dashing young fellow who outwits our original friend the dandy of fifty and the philosophical depute; the whole leaving a pleasing impression on the reader's mind from the conviction that the heroine is no longer neglected