How to Keep House
“A better present for a young wife setting up housekeeping it would be hard to find.”—The Queen.
CONTENTS
The Importance of Good Housekeeping—How Housekeeping may be Learned—Setting up House—House-hunting and House-taking—Rents, Rates, Taxes, &c.—Divisions of Incomes varying from £200 to £2,000—Duties of Mistresses—Servants: how their work is apportioned in House-holds of various sizes—Servants and their separate Duties, Dress and Wages—Engagement and Dismissal of Servants—Sanitation of the House—Care of the Linen—Warming and lighting—Hostess and Guests—How to Clean Kitchen, Glass, China, Carpets, Rooms, &c.—Weights and Measures—Ready Reckoner—Income and Wages Table.
The New Home
Treating of the Arrangement, Decoration, and Furnishing of a House of Medium Size, to be maintained by a Moderate Income
Fully Illustrated
From the Preface.—“The aim of this book is not only to show how effects of comfort, beauty, and fitness may be brought about; but also how they may be brought about with economy.”
[Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
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By BERNARD SHAW
Dramatic Works
Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant.2 vols. With a Portrait of the Author byFrederick H. Evans, and the original Prefaces. 6/-each. Sold separately.
Vol. I.—Unpleasant:—(1) Widowers’ Houses; (2) The Philanderer; (3) Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
Vol. II.—Pleasant:—(4) Arms and the Man; (5) Candida; (6) The Man of Destiny; (7) You Never Can Tell.
Three Plays for Puritans.1 vol. 6/-Preface: Why for Puritans? On Diabolonian Ethics. Better than Shakespeare?
(8)The Devil’s Disciple, with Photogravure Portrait of General Burgoyne. In Three Acts.
(9)Caesar and Cleopatra, with Photogravure of Julius Caesar. In Five Acts.
(10)Captain Brassbound’s Conversion.In Three Acts.
11.The Admirable Bashville.See “Novels of my Nonage.”
Man and Superman, a Comedy and a Philosophy. 1 vol. 6/-Epistle Dedicatory toArthur Bingham Walkley.
*12.Man and Superman.In Four Acts. The Revolutionist’s Handbook. Maxims for Revolutionists.
John Bull’s Other Island and Major Barbara.1 vol. 6/-Preface for Politicians. Home Rule in Ireland and Egypt.
13.John Bull’s Other Island.In Four Acts.
14.How He Lied to Her Husband.In One Act. With Preface. Preface to Major Barbara. First Aid to Critics. The Salvation Army. Christianity and Anarchism.
15.Major Barbara.In Three Acts.
Separate Editions of the plays, paper wrappers, 1/6 net; cloth, 2/-net except those marked.*
Novels of my Nonage
The Irrational Knot (1880).Reprinted with a preface in 1905. 6/-
Cashel Byron’s Profession (1882), with the dramatic version in the Elizabethan style, entitled, “The Admirable Bashville or Constancy Unrewarded,” and a note on Modern Prize Fighting. 6/-
Essays in Philosophic Criticism
The Perfect Wagnerite (1898).Second Edition, 1903. Reprinted 1906. 3/6 net.
Dramatic Opinions and Essays.Originally contributed toThe Saturday Reviewin 1895-98. Selected byJames Huneker, with a Preface by him. 2 vols. 10/6 net.
Press Cuttings.Paper cover, 1/-net.
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