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STOCKTON MANOR; OR, EVERY CLOUD HAS ITS SILVER LINING. BY CONSTANCE BURNET.

THE CURATE OF LOWOOD; OR, EVERY MAN HAS HIS GOLDEN CHANCE. BY MRS. J. H. RIDDELL.

THE ORPHANS; OR, NO HAND NEED BE EMPTY WHILE THERE IS SEED TO BE SOWN. BY CONWAY EDLESTON.

LADY MADALENA; OR, NEVER MAKE A MOUNTAIN OF A MOLE-HILL. BY THE AUTHOR OF “MY MOTHER’S DIAMONDS.”

JULIET PERCY; OR, HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES. BY MARY COMPTON.

THE ROMANCE OF THE TERRACE; OR, NEVER WADE IN UNKNOWN WATERS. BY MARIA J. GREER.

ROVER AND HIS FRIENDS; OR, A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED. FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME COLOMB.

THE YOUNG ENGINEER; OR, SOMETIMES WORDS WOUND MORE THAN SWORDS. BY MRS. M. DOUGLAS.

II.

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A RULE OF CONDUCT; OR, ONE THING AT A TIME. BY MADAME COLOMB.

A BRAVE BOY’S TRIALS; OR, SAY WELL IS A GOOD WORD, BUT DO WELL IS A BETTER. BY ETHEL COXON.

COUSIN FLORENCE; OR, BEAUTY IS BUT SKIN DEEP. BY CONWAY EDLESTON.

THE QUIET DAUGHTER; OR, WHEN THE SUN HAS SET THE LITTLE STARS MAY SHINE. BY MRS. M. DOUGLAS.

THE LITTLE MODEL; OR, ’TIS A LONG DAY WHICH HAS NO NIGHT. FROM THE FRENCH.

A DAZZLING ACQUAINTANCE; OR, FAIR WORDS BUTTER NO PARSNIPS. BY MRS. M. DOUGLAS.

THE BEST SUIT; OR, ONE DOES NOT DO WHAT ONE OUGHT UNLESS ONE DOES WHAT ONE CAN. BY WALTER CLINTON.

THE NEW SHILLING COOKERY-BOOK.

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Introduction:—1. Foods in Season; 2. Tables of Weights and Measures; 3. A Ready Reckoner to check Bills; 4. Cooking Requisites and Utensils; 5. Condiments, etc., to keep in Stock.

Soups:—How to make Soups. Recipes.

Sauces:—How to make Good Sauces. Recipes.

Fish:—How to choose Fish. Recipes.

Meat:—1. How Meat is cut up; 2. Joints (how used); 3. How to choose Meat; 4. Modes of Cooking (how to roast, boil, broil, stew, etc.); 5. Recipes.

Poultry and Game:—How to choose. Recipes.

Economical Cookery:—How to utilize Cold Meat, Scraps, etc.

Vegetables:—Including Salads, Pickling, etc. Recipes.

Sweets, etc.:—Pastry, Puddings, Cakes, Biscuits, Scones, etc. Recipes.

Pickles, Preserves, Forcemeat, etc.:—Recipes.

Eggs, Cheese, etc.:—How to choose and preserve. Recipes.

Cookery for Invalids:—Recipes for the Sick and Convalescent.

Miscellanea:—Various Odds and Ends, including Tea, Coffee, etc.

Appendix:—Various Household Hints.

“A most attractive general cookery-book.”—Examiner.

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“It is true to its title, but shows that ‘dishes’ may be ‘dainty’ without being costly or elaborate, with nothing but wholesome ingredients to begin with, and delicate management in the cooking.”—Examiner.

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“A design so excellent, and an accomplishment so complete, may well recommend this volume to the consideration of the ladies of this kingdom. If economy can be combined with an agreeable and nutritious diet, by all means let the fact be well known.”—British Mail.

“Those house-wives who wish to improve in the now fashionable art of cookery, will find a storehouse of plain, practical teaching in this book.”—Literary Churchman.

“The late Countess Münster has not only laid English and French kitchens under contribution, but takes us to Italy, Germany, Russia, and even to Poland, in search of any dish that may be toothsome, wholesome, and made easily and cheaply.”—Bookseller.

“A book of gastronomic delicacies enough to make the mouth water.”—Surrey Comet.

“Here is a cookery-book unique in character, and well worth studying.”—Educational Times.

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“Mr. Nicoll’s facts are commendably accurate, and his style is perfectly devoid of pretentiousness, tawdriness, and mannerism, for which relief in the present day an author always deserves much thanks from his critics.”—Saturday Review.

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“Mr. Nicoll’s well-arranged volume will be of service to the student and interesting to the general reader. Biography and history are combined with criticism, so that the men are seen as well as their works.... The copious and careful table of chronology gives a distinct value to the book as a work of reference. The volume is without pretension, and deserves praise for simplicity of purpose, as well as for careful workmanship.”—Spectator.

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“It is certainly a ‘handy book,’ for hands of every class are so carefully described that all the signs of the palms may be readily ‘got up’ by those who wish to deal in this simplest of the dark sciences.”—Publishers’ Circular.

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WHITE EYELID MANGABEY.

WHITE EYELID MANGABEY.

Specimen of the 66 Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick in the “Parlour Menagerie.”

From Professor Owen, C.B., F.R.S., &c.

(Director, Natural History Dep., British Museum).

To the Editor of the Parlour Menagerie.

“The early love of Nature, especially as manifested by the Habits and Instincts of Animals to which you refer, in your own case, is so common to a healthy boy’s nature, that the Parlour Menagerie, a work so singularly full of interesting examples culled from so wide a range of Zoology, and so fully and beautifully illustrated cannot fail to be a favourite with the rising generation—and many succeeding ones—of Juvenile Naturalists. When I recall the ‘Description of 300 Animals’ (including the Cockatrice and all Pliny’s monsters) which fed my early appetite for Natural History, I can congratulate my grandchildren on being provided with so much more wholesome food through your persevering and discriminating labours.—Richard Owen.”

From the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P.

To the Editor, Parlour Menagerie.

“I doubt not the Parlour Menagerie will prove very interesting, as indeed it has already been found to be by those of my family who have read it. I hope one of the effects of our better public education will be to create among our population a more humane disposition towards what we call the inferior animals. Much may be done by impressing on the minds of children the duty of kindness in their treatment of animals, and I hope this will not be neglected by the teachers of our schools.... I feel sure what you have done will bear good fruit.—John Bright.”

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“Mr. Hogg is, without question, a specialist in the art of catering for the literary tastes of the young.”—Shropshire Guardian.

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Contents.

Chaps. 1. The Boy at Home.—2. The Boy at School.—3. The Boy in the Playground.—4. The Boy in his Leisure Hours.—5. Bad Boys.—6. Friendships of Boys.—7. The Boy in the Country.—8. How and What to Read.—9. Boyhood of Famous Men.—10. The Ideal Boy.

“The table of contents gives such a bill of fare as will render the boy into whose hands this book falls eager to enjoy the feast prepared for him. We venture to predict for this charming book a popularity equal to ‘Self-Help.’... No better gift could be put into a boy’s hands, and it will become a standard work for the school library.”—Scholastic World.

“Who the author of the book is, has been kept a secret, and the anonymity we regret, because the work is one with which no writer need be ashamed to identify his name and stake his reputation.”—Edinburgh Daily Review.

“It is a boy’s book of the best style.”—Aberdeen Journal.

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Dedicated by permission to the Rt. Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P., &c.

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Part I.—Moral Self-Culture.

Part II.—Mental Self-Culture.

Chap. 1. How to Read.

Chaps. 2 to 9. Courses of Reading in English Poetry, History, Biography, Fiction, Travel and Discovery, Theology, Philosophy and Metaphysics, Miscellaneous Science and Scientific Text-Books. Chap. 10. How to Write: English Composition.

Part III.—Physical Self-Culture.

“Mens sana in corpore sano.”

“We like the thorough way in which Mr. Adams deals with ‘Self-Culture: Moral, Mental, and Physical.’ His chapter on the courtesies of home life, and the true relation between parent and child, is specially valuable nowadays. He certainly answers the question, ‘Is life worth living?’ in a most triumphant affirmative.”—Graphic.

“Books for young men are constantly appearing—some of them genuine, earnest, and useful, and many of them mere products of the art of book-making. We have pleasure in saying that this volume by Mr. Adams deserves to take its place among the best of the first-mentioned class. It is fresh, interesting, varied, and, above all, full of common sense, manliness, and right principle.”—Inverness Courier.

“Young men who wish to make something of themselves should invest seven sixpences in this most valuable volume.”—Sword and Trowel.

“A better book of the class in all respects we have seldom had the pleasure to notice.... We cannot too strongly recommend it to young men.”—Young Men’s Christian Association Monthly Notes.

“A glimpse through Mr. Hogg’s catalogue shows how admirably he caters for the young of both sexes.”—Wolverhampton Chronicle.

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“Useful, sensibly written, and full of amusing illustrative anecdotes.”—Morning Post.

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“The book is the best of the kind yet produced, and no purchaser of it will regret his investment.”—Bristol Mercury.

“Those who live in dread lest they should not do the ‘correct thing’ should procure the book, which is a complete society encyclopædia.”—Glasgow News.

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Southey’s Edition, with Life of Bunyan, &c.

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