"We know not whether the work is published for ordinary sale or not, but if it be, we can recommend it to the perusal of mothers and expectant mothers, who will further find many useful hints relative to the physical management of their offspring, whilst the more elderly of the fair sex may also therein discover some facile modes of relief from some 'of the ills that flesh is heir to.'"—Brighton Gazette.
"No mother, or the principal of a large seminary for females, ought to be without this treatise, which exhibits 'every phase of woman's life, from the cradle to the grave."—Leamington Courier.
"Calisthenics require too much time and attention; the cure can only be effected by dress and efficient support. Read Madame Caplin's book on "Female Beauty, Corsets, and Clothing."—Family Herald, Dec. 20th, 1856.
"Every stage of life, and every female infirmity or peculiarity, is here considered at length, and illustrated by excellent plates, which are necessary to the work, and calculated to be highly useful to the public."—Press, Nov. 8th, 1856.
"The above extracts will be more than sufficient to excite the curiosity of our female readers, to whom we seriously recommend the perusal of a volume which, although we necessarily know little of the subject on which it treats, appears to us to contain a great deal of good common sense, on a matter to which ladies generally pay far too little attention."—York Herald.
"But, ladies, read this magnificently illustrated and useful drawing-room book; for the reform which Madame Caplin would bring about is much desiderated."—Leeds Times.
"She then points out the various modifications of this article of dress, suitable to the different phenomena pertaining to the
