iv PREFACE. 



The important matter of health, and how to preserve it ; what to do in 

 the case of illness ; with hints in regard to cooking, carving, and other 

 home accomplishments, will be found to have had attention. Driving, 

 riding, swimming, rowing, and other physical exercises, have also been 

 treated of, as have dancing, and in-door and out-door amusements. 



Much space has also been devoted to educational, commercial, and legal 

 affairs, which can hardly fail to be of the utmost value. Book-keeping, as 

 it deserved, has been given special prominence, while arithmetic, penman- 

 ship, and the forms of business correspondence have been fully illustrated. 

 The digest of mercantile law, and the forms of legal documents must be 

 acceptable additions to the book, as must also the complete letter-writer, 

 and the various forms of social invitation. 



The Farm Department has been specially edited by Prof. W. Brown, 

 Superintendent of the Experimental Farm, Guelph, than whom there is 

 no better authority on this special subject in the Dominion. His own 

 preface will be found in the book. The whole work, it is believed, 

 meets a general need, and it is offered to the Canadian public with every 

 confidence in its success. 



THE EDITORS. 



Toronto, 1st December, 1883. 



