Frederick Warm £5f C?., Publishers. 



"One of the Best Books of Becreation. we have seen."— 



The Guardian. 



In crown Zvo, price is. 6d., clothgilt and gilt edges. 



THE HOME BOOK 



OF 



Pleasure and Instruction. 



AN ORIGINAL WORK, WITH 250 CHOICE ILLTTSTEATZOKS. 



Edited by Mrs. R. VALENTINE, 

 Editor of "The Girl's Own Book," *' Aunt Louisa's Picture Books," &c. 



WITH ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY 



The Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe," Miss Dyson, Mrs. Ogilvy, 



Miss Stephens, Albert Warren, Henry Warren, 



Edward Dalziel, &c., &c. 



This volume aims to be a Standard Book for Play, Work, Art, Duty 

 — Games for Play Hours, Work for Leisure in the Home Circle, Art 

 for the Cultivation of Taste, and Duty to ensure Home Happiness. 



"We have seldom seen so complete a store of entertaining and instructive matter. In 

 fact, it is a perfect text-boolc of In and out-door pursuits and amusements for young 

 folks."— 7'Ae Q^en. 



*^We have to congratulate the publishers upon the production of a book for girls, 

 which we have no hesitation in pronouncing to be the very best book of the kind that has 

 ever appeared."— Tie BookielUr, 



*■*■ No pains have been spared to make this a complete rtpertoir* of * home * amusements 

 and educational appliances. The book consists of nearly 6c» pa^es of closely-printed 

 matter, with numerous engravings; and it will be long before it is superseded by a 

 worthier rival." — Nenconformist. 



** What a pity it is that we do not form a part of the girls of the world, to whom this 

 book is offered. Instead of being grateful for such a gift, we can but envy the favoured 

 recipients. We feel sure that they will value it highly, and that it will serve as their com- 

 pamon from the cradle to the hymeneal altar. It begins with a collection of games for 

 very young children. Then the games become gradually graver and more inteUectual. 

 Instead of dancing round the mulberry-bush, we have charades and double acrostics. We 

 are no longer wolves and lambs, but Peter the Great and limited liability companies. But 

 further responsibilities are entailed upon us. From dressing our doUs we are suddenly 

 plunged in church work, which ought, properly speaking, to have been presided over by 

 that one of the contributors to the volume to whom we owe the * Six Cushions.* We 

 gradually mount to all the popular sciences under the sun. We study botany, conchology, 

 heraldry, photography, wood engraving, and wax-fruit modelling. By this time we have 

 about attained a marriageable age, and we close Mrs. Valentine^s Home Book in order to 

 open the multitude of small red cash-ruled manuals which answer to that name for the 

 future."^5/«(fl/or. 



Bedford Streety Covent Garden, 



