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children wholesome beverages adapted to the 

 constitution of childhood, and to all who drink 

 with the desire of allaying their thirst, and not 

 for the purposes of excitement. No pains have 

 been spared in its compilation, every possible 

 authority has been consulted, and many experi- 

 ments have been made to prove the value of 

 the recipes." It is a clever little booklet, and 

 is instinct with " the master's touch " on every 

 page. 



One of Tegetmeier's most successful books, 

 his " Manual of Domestic Economy," was also 

 published under the direction of the Home and 

 Colonial School Society. It ran through fourteen 

 large editions, and he was justly proud of its 

 great success. This was the book to which he 

 referred in his writings and speeches as the one 

 that had sold by the ten thousand, and yet 

 had not had one halfpenny spent on advertising 

 it. For many years it was the standard work 

 of its kind on the subject ; for it was one to 

 which he devoted great attention, and on which 

 he was an acknowledged authority. It was 

 designed for the use of female students in 

 training colleges, and of the elder classes in girls' 

 schools : it was, in fact, adopted as the text-book 

 on domestic economy in the principal training 

 colleges in the Kingdom, and was used in most 

 of the large schools for females where industrial 

 instruction was given. So valuable did it prove 



