The Gresham Publishing Company. 



Thp Rnnk" ^^ encyclopaedia of all Matters relating to the 



■-"-''-'IV House and Household Management. Produced under 



j-v-P 'ff-ip HniTIP the general editorship of H. C. Davidson, assisted by over 

 l/l llIC 1 lUlllC one hundred specialists. Copiously illustrated by coloured 

 and black-and-white plates antl engravings in the text. In 4 volumes, super-royal 8vo, cloth, 

 with artistic design ; also in 8 divisional volumes, cloth. 



The Book op the Home is intended to form a complete work of reference on all subjects connected 

 with household management. No efforts have been spared to ensure that e\cry matter bt-aring upon the 

 fionie and Home Life sliall receive full and sufficient treatment, and that the information given shall be 

 reliable and in the best sense of the phrase up-to-date. 



A few among over one hundred specialists who have contributed to the work: 



Miss Gektrudk J. King, Secretary to the Society 

 for Promoting the Employment of Women. 



Miss E. E. Mann, Head Teacher at the Liverpool 

 Training School of Cookery. 



Colonel M. Moore-Lane, Contributor to the field 

 and other agricultural papers. 



Mrs. C. S. Peel, Dress and Household Editor ot 

 Hearth and Home, and Author of The New 

 Home. 



Miss. B. SiBTHORPE PooLEV, Lecturer to the Liver- 

 pool Ladies' Sanitary Association. 



Miss Rankin, Head Teacher of Laundry Work at 

 the Liverpool Technical College for Women. 



Miss Florence Stacpoole, Lecturer to the National 

 Health Society and the Councils of Technical 

 Education, and Author ol" Handbook of House- 

 keeping/or Small Incomes, &c 



Mr. David Tollemache, late editor of The Che; 

 and Co 



Mrs. Ada S. Ballin, Editor of Baby— the Mothers 



Magazine, and of Womanhood. 

 Miss Bertha Banner, Training Teacher of Sewing 



and Dressmaking at the Liverpool Technical 



College for Women. 

 Mr. A. Black, C.E., Architect, Author of First 



Principles of Building. 

 Mrs. Davidson", Author of Dainties, What our 



Daughters can do for themselves, &c. 

 Miss J. FoRSTER, Principal of the Cheshire County 



Council Dairy Institute. 

 Mrs. H. R. Haweis (the late). Author of The Art 



of Decoration, The Art of Beauty, &c. 

 Miss Helena Head, Principal of the Liverpool 



Girls' School for Secondary Education in 



Domestic Science, and Author of the Manual of 



Housewifery. 

 Mrs. A. Hodgson, Home Decorator to The Lady. 

 Mr. R. Keith Johnston, Author of Household 

 Difficulties and How to overcome Them. 



The contents of The Book of the Hour may be grouped under four heads. The first deals with 

 all matters concerning the House— from the choice of its site to the least of its internal decorations. The 

 householder is instructed in the laws regarding landlord and tenant, and counselled in the important 

 matters of sanitation and ventilation, heating and lighting, and the stocking and management of 

 the garden. The housekeeper is advised as to furnishing, everything necessary for the comt'ort 

 and adornment of a well-equipped house being described in detail, hints being also given regarding 

 removals, painting and papering, artistic decoration, arrangement of linen and store cupboards, &c. 



In the second the daily routine of the Household is considered— the duties ot the servants, their 

 wages, their leisure and pleasures, the management of the kitchen, laundry, and store-room. Plain and 

 fancy cooking receive due attention, recipes being given of a large variety of dishes, and suggestions 

 made for breakfast, lunch, afternoon-tea, dinner, and supper. A number of menus are added suitable, 

 for the different seasons. Invalid cookery also has its special section. 



In the third are discussed the legal and customary duties, and the occupations and pastimes, 

 of Master and Mistress, the former being instructed as regards insurance and the making of a will, 

 and the smaller matters of carving, the care of the wine-cellar, and the inspection of garden and stables, 

 while the latter is advised as to account-keeping, payments, shopping, and innumerable other matters 

 connected with her duties as Mistress. Other subjects treated under this head are dress, home 

 occupations, visiting and entertaining, and indoor and outdoor amusements. 



In the fourth sound, systematic, and practical advice is given as to the management, in health 

 and sickness, and the education, of children, and also on such important subjects as occupations 

 for boys and girls, the ceremonies necessary on the coming out of a daughter, and the preparations 

 and formalities necessary before and after a marriage. 



The Book of the Home will thus be at once an indispensable ally to the young bride and the 

 novice in housekeeping, and a valuable work of reference to the more experienced. 



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