has been added by the authors, based on their experience 

 in correspondence instruction. A number of special ar- 

 ticles of importance are also included. 

 ^ At the back of each volume will be found a program or 

 outline for supplemental study, making virtually an ex- 

 tension of each series of lessons. These are arranged 

 primarily for classes taking up courses with the School 

 by the group plan, but they should prove of equal 

 value to the individual student and be very suggestive to 

 teachers. The reference books mentioned and the small 

 amount of apparatus required when experiments are sug- 

 gested are loaned to members of the School when not 

 available locally. 



^ In place of prefaces to the volumes, reproductions are 

 given of the introductory letters of the instructors which 

 are sent to students when each new subject is begun. 



*lThe Library is published to give the members of the 

 School their course of study in permanent form, with 

 indexes for ready reference, and in binding worthy of the 

 contents. It will also serve as a reading course for asso- 

 ciate members of the School and will be available as a 

 general reference work, making the public acquainted 

 with the character and merit of the correspondence 

 courses of the American School of Home Economics. 



y It is in hope that it may serve as an inspiration and an 

 authoritative guide for inexperienced home-makers; that 

 it may open up a new world of interest to the expen- 

 enced home-maker and give added meaning and impor- 

 tance to familiar tasks; that it may, in some measure, 

 increase health and happiness, that the Library of Home 

 Economics is offered. 



