6 Mr. Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements. 



THE ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE IN THE 



SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH 



CENTURIES. 



By ROSE BRADLEY. 

 One Volume. Demy 8vo. Illustrated. 125. 6d. net. 



This book gives some account of the home life of English ladies 

 from shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War until the opening 

 of the nineteenth century. We may see how, in the spacious 

 days before the Commonwealth, the great lady ruled her household 

 and personally superintended her kitchen, her still-room, and her 

 malt-house ; how she practised the much-prized virtue of hospitality, 

 and how she extended her charity to her poorer neighbours and 

 dependents. We may note the deterioration alike of mistress and 

 maid during the pleasure-seeking age of the Restoration, and the 

 gradual re-awakening and development of feminine intelligence and 

 capacities during the course of the eighteenth century, notwith- 

 standing the uninspiring period, from a domestic point of view, of 

 the early Hanoverians. A description is given of the home in which 

 the housewife of the different periods lived, and of the successive 

 influences which were exercised upon her house, her furniture, and 

 her kitchen. Miss Bradley has had access to some hitherto un- 

 published journals and account books which are of value as showing 

 the manner of living and the expenses incurred by private indi- 

 viduals during these two centuries. The book is illustrated by 

 photographs and by plans of the table as it was arranged for the 

 dinners of ceremony of our great-grandmothers. It may be 

 mentioned that Miss Bradley is a daughter of the late Dean of 

 Westminster and sister of Mrs. Woods, the well-known novelist. 



THE LIFE OF AN ELEPHANT. 



By SIR S. EARDLEY-WILMOT, K.C.I.E., 



AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF A TIGER," "FOREST LIFE IN INDIA," ETC. 



With nearly 150 Illustrations from Original Drawings by 

 Miss EARDLEY-WILMOT. 



One volume. Medium 8vo. js. 6d. net. 



This book is by the author of " The Life of a Tiger," published 

 last year. Readers of that work will appreciate the treat in store 

 for them ; but for those who are unacquainted with it, it may be said 

 that whilst Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot probably knows more about his 



