Enquire Within Upon Everything / The Great Victorian Domestic Standby

the great Victorian-era domestic standby
with hyperlinked index
Whether You Wish to Model a Flower in Wax; to Study the Rules of Etiquette; to Serve a Relish for Breakfast or Supper; to Plan a Dinner for a Large Party or a Small One; to Cure a Headache; to Make a Will; to Get Married; to Bury a Relative; Whatever You May Wish to Do, Make, or to Enjoy, Provided Your Desire has Relation to the Necessities of Domestic Life, I Hope You will not Fail to 'Enquire Within.' —Editor .
1894
No one, being a stranger to London, would run about asking for Mr. Smith . But, remembering the Christian name and the profession of the individual wanted, he would turn to the Directory , and trace him out.
For, if it be not a misnomer, we are prompted to say that Enquire Within is peopled with hundreds of ladies and gentlemen, who have approved of the plan of the work, and contributed something to its store of useful information. There they are, waiting to be questioned, and ready to reply. Within each page some one lives to answer for the correctness of the information imparted, just as certainly as where, in the window of a dwelling, you see a paper directing you to Enquire Within , some one is there to answer you.
Well! there they live—always at home. Knock at their doors— Enquire Within. No Fees to Pay !!
Much care has been taken in selecting the information that is given, and, as is amply shown by the above list, so many kind and competent friends have lent a hand in the production of this volume that is impossible to turn to any page without at once being reminded of the Generous Friend who abides there.
To some extent, though in a far less degree, assistance has been rendered by the authors of many useful and popular works, for which due acknowledgment must be made. Chief among these works are Dr. Kitchiner's Cooks' Oracle ; The Cook , in Houlston and Sons' Industrial Library ; The Shopkeeper's Guide ; The Wife's Own Cookery , The Practical Housewife , and many of the volumes of the Reason Why series.