The Gresham Publishing Company. 5 
The Book 
of the Home. 
with artistic design, price £2, 25. net. 
AN ENCYCLOPADIA OF ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE 
HOUSE AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT. Produced under 
the general editorship of H. C. DAVIDSON, assisted by over 
one hundred specialists. Copiously illustrated by coloured 
and black-and-white plates and engravings in the text. 
In 4 volumes, super-royal 8vo, cloth, 
Also in 8 divisional volumes, cloth, price 5s. net each. 
THE Book or THE Homt is intended to form a complete work of reference on all subjects connected 
with household management. 
No efforts have been spared to ensure that every matter bearing upon the 
Home and Home Life shall 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: 
Mrs. Apa S. BALLIN, Editor of Baby—the Mother's 
Magazine, and of Womanhood. 
Miss BERTHA BANNER, Training Teacher of Sewing 
and Dressmaking at the Liverpool Technical 
College for Women. 
Mr. A. Buiack, C.E., Architect, Author of First 
Principles of Building. 
Mrs. Davipson, Author of Dainties, 
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 
Hlousewifery, 
Mrs. A. Hopcson, Home Decorator to The Lady. 
Mr. R.@KEITH JoHNsTON, Author of Household 
What our 
Miss GERTRUDE 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-Lang, Contributor to the Field 
and other agricultural papers. 
Mrs. C. S. PEEL, Dress and Household Editor of 
Hearth and Home, and Author of The New 
flome. 
Miss. B. SIBTHORPE POOLEY, 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 of Handbook of House- 
keeping for Small Incomes, &c. 
Mr. DAvip TOLLEMACHE, Iate editor of The Chey 
Difficulties and How to overcome Them. and Connoisseur. 
The contents of THE Book OF THE HOME 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 comfort 
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 healt!: 
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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