a lady, who the whole time she employ'd her
knife and fork with incredible swiftness in dispatching a load of
turkey and chine she had heap'd upon her plate, still kept a keen
regard on what she had left behind, greedily devouring with her eyes
all that remain'd in the dish, and throwing a look of envy on every
one who put in for the smallest share.--My advice to such a one is,
that she would have a great looking-glass fix'd opposite the seat she
takes at table; and I am much mistaken, if the sight of herself in
those grim attitudes I have mention'd, will not very much contribute
to bring her to more moderation" (p. 276).

The method of "The Husband, in Answer to the Wife" (1756) is similar to
that of its companion-piece; in fact, much of the same advice is merely
modified or amplified to suit the other sex. The husband is warned to
avoid drinking to excess and some other particulars which may happen to
be displeasing to his spouse, such as using too much freedom in his
wife's presence with any of her female acquaintance. He is instructed in
the manner in which it will be most proper for a married man to carry
himself towards the maidservants of his family, and also the manner of
behavior best becoming a husband on a full detection of his wife's
infidelity. As in "The Wife" the path of marriage leads but to divorce.
One is forcibly reminded of Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mode."

Not altogether different is the conception of wedlock in Mrs. Haywood's
novels of domestic life written at about the same period, but the
pictures there shown are painted in incomparably greater detail, with a
fuller appreciation of character, and without that pious didacticism
which even the most lively exertions of Eliza Haywood's romancing genius
failed to leaven in her essays.

FOOTNOTES
[1]
_Memoirs of a Certain Island_, I, 141. The letter is one of a packet
conveyed away by Sylphs much resembling those in _The Rape of the Lock_.

[2]
Miss C.E. Morgan, _The Novel of Manners_, 72.

[3]
The author herself describes it in the Preface as "more properly ... a
Paraphrase than a Translation."

[4]
Later _A Stage-Coach Journey to Exeter_, 1725.

[5]
A. Esdaile, _English Tales and Romances_, Introduction, xxxiii.
B.
[6]
Robert Boyle's _Martyrdom of Theodora_, 1687, is thus described by Dr.
Johnson. Boswell's _Johnson_, Oxford ed., I, 208.

[7]
Not to be confused with a periodical entitled _The Tea-Table. To be
contin