CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Our American Resources and Foreign Allies | [13] |
| The Hostess | [22] |
| Breakfast | [35] |
| The Lunch | [49] |
| Afternoon Tea | [59] |
| The Intellectual Components of a Dinner | [68] |
| Conscientious Diners | [79] |
| Various Modes of Gastronomical Gratification | [94] |
| Soups | [105] |
| Fish | [113] |
| Salad | [124] |
| Desserts | [134] |
| German Eating and Drinking | [143] |
| The Influence of Good Cheer on Authorsand Geniuses | [152] |
| Bonbons | [162] |
| Famous Menus and Receipts | [176] |
| Cookeries and Wines of Southern Europe | [185] |
| Some Oddities in the Art of Entertaining | [197] |
| The Servant Question | [206] |
| Something About Cooks | [221] |
| Furnishing a Country House | [233] |
| Entertaining in a Country House | [241] |
| A Picnic | [253] |
| Pastimes of Ladies | [260] |
| Private Theatricals | [271] |
| Hunting and Shooting | [280] |
| Golf | [288] |
| Games | [299] |
| Archery | [313] |
| The Season—Balls and Receptions | [321] |
| Weddings | [331] |
| How Royalty Entertains | [340] |
| Entertaining at Easter | [353] |
| How to Entertain Children | [361] |
| Christmas and Children | [371] |
| Certain Practical Suggestions | [381] |
| The Comparative Merits of American andForeign Modes of Entertaining | [389] |
THE ART OF ENTERTAINING.