This appears to me likely to interest you, for it is written in relation to a family system not at all like the family system of the rest of Europe.

I think you will find in it not a little that may remind you of Chinese teaching on the same subject--the conduct of the daughter-in-law.

But there are of course many differences, and the most pleasing difference is the tone of great tenderness in which the instructions are given.

Let us quote some of them: "O young bride, O my young sister, O my well beloved and beautiful young flower, listen to the words which I am going to speak to you, harken to the lesson which I am going to teach you.

You are going now very far away from us, O beautiful flower!--you are going to take a long journey, O my wild-strawberry fruit! you are about to fly away from us, O most delicate down! you are about to leave us forever, O velvet tissue--far away from this habitation you must go, far away from this beautiful house, to enter another house, to enter into a strange family.