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THE YOUNG MAIDEN.

by

A. B. MUZZEY,

Author of The Young Man's Friend, Sunday School Guide, &C


"Young Men, and Maidens; *  *  *
Let them praise the name of the Lord."

Tenth Edition.







Boston
Wm. Crosby & H. P. Nichols,
111 Washington Street
1848.



Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by
A. B. Muzzey,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Cambridge:
Metcalf and Company,
Printers to the University.



CONTENTS.

    Chapter I.--The Capacities of Woman,                      page 5
    Chapter II.--Female Influence,                                30
    Chapter III.--Female Education,                               53
    Chapter IV.--Home,                                            81
    Chapter V.--Society,                                         107
    Chapter VI.--Love,                                           136
    Chapter VII.--Single Life,                                   151
    Chapter VIII.--Reasons for Marriage,                         163
    Chapter IX.--Conditions of True Marriage,                    191
    Chapter X.--Society of Young Men,                            205
    Chapter XI.--First Love,                                     213
    Chapter XII.--Conduct during Engagement,                     222
    Chapter XIII.--Trials of Woman, and her Solace,              237
    Chapter XIV.--Encouragements,                                255



                               DEDICATION.

                    TO THE
                  YOUNG MAIDENS OF OUR FAVORED UNION,
                              THIS VOLUME
                      IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
                                BY THEIR FRIEND,
                                          THE AUTHOR.






THE YOUNG MAIDEN