If we ever get as much as $500 a year we shall purchase this book and live like a prince.... It goes carefully through the expenses of daily living, and indicates the thousand and one ways in which a penny can be saved and another penny put where it will do most good. A book of this kind placed in the hands of those who have very limited means will show that they can live very comfortably and have quite enough to eat on a very small sum.—N. Y. Herald.It is a helpful working book, sensible and practical, and tells how to buy, cook, and serve all sorts of food; how to can, pickle, and preserve; and how to arrange and serve luncheons, dinners, and teas, all in the most economical manner consistent with appetizing results.—Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia.Food-economist, cook-book, and instructor in table service all in one.... The book is a capital one, and every housekeeper should feel grateful to the able and painstaking author.—N. Y. Post.The production of a lady who understands her subject thoroughly, and who earnestly wishes to help others towards the same useful knowledge.... A book of this sort (and Miss Corson is the best able to produce it of any one we know) is a great aid, and the more it is circulated the more households will be made happy.—Churchman, N. Y.Every housekeeper, whether coming within the scope of the author's effort or not, will find many instructive hints, a due regard for which will be conducive to the improved physical well-being and increased mental serenity of the various members of her household.—St. Louis Republican.
If we ever get as much as $500 a year we shall purchase this book and live like a prince.... It goes carefully through the expenses of daily living, and indicates the thousand and one ways in which a penny can be saved and another penny put where it will do most good. A book of this kind placed in the hands of those who have very limited means will show that they can live very comfortably and have quite enough to eat on a very small sum.—N. Y. Herald.
It is a helpful working book, sensible and practical, and tells how to buy, cook, and serve all sorts of food; how to can, pickle, and preserve; and how to arrange and serve luncheons, dinners, and teas, all in the most economical manner consistent with appetizing results.—Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia.
Food-economist, cook-book, and instructor in table service all in one.... The book is a capital one, and every housekeeper should feel grateful to the able and painstaking author.—N. Y. Post.
The production of a lady who understands her subject thoroughly, and who earnestly wishes to help others towards the same useful knowledge.... A book of this sort (and Miss Corson is the best able to produce it of any one we know) is a great aid, and the more it is circulated the more households will be made happy.—Churchman, N. Y.
Every housekeeper, whether coming within the scope of the author's effort or not, will find many instructive hints, a due regard for which will be conducive to the improved physical well-being and increased mental serenity of the various members of her household.—St. Louis Republican.
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MRS. SHERWOOD'S MANNERS AND SOCIAL USAGES IN AMERICA.
Manners and Social Usages in America. A Book of Etiquette. By Mrs.John Sherwood. pp. 448. New and Enlarged Edition, Revised by the Author. 16mo, Extra Cloth, $1 25.
Mrs. Sherwood's admirable little volume differs from ordinary works on the subject of etiquette, chiefly in the two facts that it is founded on its author's personal familiarity with the usages of really good society, and that it is inspired by good-sense and a helpful spirit.... We think Mrs. Sherwood's little book the very best and most sensible one of its kind that we ever saw.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.We have no hesitation in declaring it to be the best work of the kind yet published. The author shows a just appreciation of what is good-breeding and what is snobbishness.... In happy discriminations the excellence of Mrs. Sherwood's book is conspicuous.—Brooklyn Union.It is a sensible and pleasantly written volume, which has already won recognition as one of the best books of its kind, and this new edition is called for by the heartiness with which the public has endorsed the work.—Courier, Boston.A sensible, comprehensive book, which has endured criticism successfully, and deserves now to be regarded the best book of its kind published in this country.... A better guide than Mrs. Sherwood's book through the paths of social usages we do not know. The book is a handsome one, as it ought to be.—Christian Intelligencer, N. Y.
Mrs. Sherwood's admirable little volume differs from ordinary works on the subject of etiquette, chiefly in the two facts that it is founded on its author's personal familiarity with the usages of really good society, and that it is inspired by good-sense and a helpful spirit.... We think Mrs. Sherwood's little book the very best and most sensible one of its kind that we ever saw.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
We have no hesitation in declaring it to be the best work of the kind yet published. The author shows a just appreciation of what is good-breeding and what is snobbishness.... In happy discriminations the excellence of Mrs. Sherwood's book is conspicuous.—Brooklyn Union.
It is a sensible and pleasantly written volume, which has already won recognition as one of the best books of its kind, and this new edition is called for by the heartiness with which the public has endorsed the work.—Courier, Boston.
A sensible, comprehensive book, which has endured criticism successfully, and deserves now to be regarded the best book of its kind published in this country.... A better guide than Mrs. Sherwood's book through the paths of social usages we do not know. The book is a handsome one, as it ought to be.—Christian Intelligencer, N. Y.
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HIGGINSON'S WOMEN AND MEN.
Women and Men. ByThomas Wentworth Higginson, Author of "A Larger History of the United States," &c. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
Nothing that Mr. Higginson has done in literature is more fascinating than these short papers, into which he has put his choice learning, his bright wit, his exceptional experience, and his unrivalled literary skill.—Boston Herald.Every essay is bright, suggestive, practical, and charming, and the work is sure to be widely popular.—Chicago Interior.The author writes with candor and wisdom, and his zeal is guided by good-sense as well as evident ability.—Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia.These essays are replete with common-sense ideas expressed in well-chosen language, and reflect on every page the humor, wit, and wisdom of the author.—N. Y. Sun.By that prince of essayists.... Practical, suggestive, and thoroughly enjoyable.—Chicago Journal.These papers have not only the merit of brevity, but they are bright, witty, graceful, and interesting. They are such papers as women delight to read, and men will enjoy them quite as much.... They are brief sermons without the dulness of sermonizing; and they teach important moral, social, and literary lessons, with the aid of frequent personal allusion, historic reference, and literary anecdote and quotation.—Critic, N. Y.Delightfully clever.... Perfect examples of what the short essay on a social subject should be.—Boston Transcript.
Nothing that Mr. Higginson has done in literature is more fascinating than these short papers, into which he has put his choice learning, his bright wit, his exceptional experience, and his unrivalled literary skill.—Boston Herald.
Every essay is bright, suggestive, practical, and charming, and the work is sure to be widely popular.—Chicago Interior.
The author writes with candor and wisdom, and his zeal is guided by good-sense as well as evident ability.—Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia.
These essays are replete with common-sense ideas expressed in well-chosen language, and reflect on every page the humor, wit, and wisdom of the author.—N. Y. Sun.
By that prince of essayists.... Practical, suggestive, and thoroughly enjoyable.—Chicago Journal.
These papers have not only the merit of brevity, but they are bright, witty, graceful, and interesting. They are such papers as women delight to read, and men will enjoy them quite as much.... They are brief sermons without the dulness of sermonizing; and they teach important moral, social, and literary lessons, with the aid of frequent personal allusion, historic reference, and literary anecdote and quotation.—Critic, N. Y.
Delightfully clever.... Perfect examples of what the short essay on a social subject should be.—Boston Transcript.
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THE BAZAR BOOKS.
THE BAZAR BOOK OF DECORUM.
The Care of the Person, Manners, Etiquette, and Ceremonials, pp. 282. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
A very graceful and judicious compendium of the laws of etiquette, taking its name from theBazarweekly, which has become an established authority with the ladies of America upon all matters of taste and refinement.—N. Y. Evening Post.
THE BAZAR BOOK OF HEALTH.
The Dwelling, the Nursery, the Bedroom, the Dining-Room, the Parlor, the Library, the Kitchen, the Sick-Room. pp. 280. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
A sensible book, and a most valuable one.... We consider that the wide distribution of this handy and elegant little volume would be one of the greatest benefactions, in a social and economical sense, that could be made to our countrymen and countrywomen.—Christian Intelligencer, N. Y.
THE BAZAR BOOK OF THE HOUSEHOLD.
Marriage, Establishment, Servants, Housekeeping, Children, Home Life, Company. pp. 266. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
Its pages are characterized by common-sense, and the book, with its practical style and useful suggestions, will do good.—Independent, N. Y.
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Transcriber's Note:Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Word combinations that appeared with and without hyphens were changed to the predominant form if it could be determined, or to the hyphenated form if it could not.Other correction: Page 105 "in no wise" → "in no ways".