An Encyclopedia 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, with artistic design; also in 8 divisional volumes, cloth.

The Book of the Home 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. Ada 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. Black, C.E., Architect, Author of First Principles of Building.

Mrs. Davidson, Author of Dainties, What our Daughters can do for themselves, etc.

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, etc.

Miss Helena Head, Principal of the Liverpool Girls' School for Secondary Education in Domestic Science, and Author of the Manual of Housewifery.

Mrs. A. Hodgson, Home Decorator to The Lady.

Mr. R. Keith Johnston, Author of Household Difficulties and How to overcome Them.

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-Lane, 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 Home.

Miss. B. Sibthorpe Poolf.y, Lecturer to the Liverpool 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 Housekeeping for Small Incomes, &c Mr. David Tollemache, late editor of The Chep 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, etc.

In the second the daily routine of the Household is considered - the duties of 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 health 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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