The thesis of this book is that a happy home requires home makers who are "comfortable in their own skins"; that is to say, well adjusted personalities. The bickerings, the jealousies, the misunderstandings, the divorces, the infidelities which break up homes are, in the opinion of these authors, but the symptoms of deeper underlying failures to make a satisfactory adjustment to life's problems. The chronic divorcée, flitting from mate to mate, indicates this fundamental unfitness. Immediate circumstances which may seem to determine conduct of this type are in reality but the superficial occasions thereof. The book contains some sensible points of view, which are nevertheless somewhat startling. Settling down to marriage and disillusionment in marriage are sensibly described not as necessary evils but as consummations devoutly to be desired, on the theory that it is impossible to maintain forever an artificially high emotional level and that disillusionment, realistically accepted, means