New Work by the Author of “Ten Years’ Practical Experience in Australia.”
THE GOLD DIGGER; or, a Visit to the Gold Fields in Australia. By the Rev. David Mackenzie, M.A.
TEN YEARS IN AUSTRALIA. By the Rev. David Mackenzie, M.A. With an Introduction, embracing the latest Information regarding the Colony. Fourth Edition.
THE GOLD REGIONS OF AUSTRALIA. A Descriptive Account of New South Wales; with the Particulars of the Recent Gold Discoveries. By Samuel Mossman.
Price Sixpence, Monthly.
ORR’S HOUSEHOLD HANDBOOKS;
A Work intended to include plain and practical information on all subjects connected with the comfort and refinement of Home. It will thus be a Companion to the popular and valuable Treatises, issued by the same Publishers, and so favourably known as Richardson’s Rural Handbooks; with this difference,—that while the latter are chiefly devoted to matters of Rural Economy and Outdoor Pursuits, the Companion Series, now commenced, will combine a truthful exposition of Home Duties, Affairs of social importance to Housewives and other members of a family, with suggestions on those elegancies of life which so greatly increase the pleasures of the domestic circle. In few words, the object of the Household Handbooks is to explain the “Science of Things Familiar” in a clear and instructive manner, calculated to attract the attention and improve the condition of society generally. The importance of the subject has been duly recognised at a late meeting in Winchester, connected with elementary instruction, to which a practical impulse has been given by Lord Ashburton, that cannot be too warmly commended. The project of this nobleman, as explained by himself, is “to promote, among the rising generation, some practical acquaintance with the principles of the most ordinary and obvious phenomena by which they are surrounded, and which are intimately connected with the labour and relaxation of their lives,” and thus render them “channels of that common information about the principles of homely things, connected with labour, frugality, health, food, and shelter, which would help to render their persons more healthy, their homes more comfortable, their labour more useful, and their lives more happy.” (Vide Times, Dec. 21.) The blending of sound moral training with physical energy, and the application of science to ordinary matters, are the great themes which Lord Ashburton urges; and to show “how the dwelling may be most efficiently and economically warmed and ventilated,—upon what principles food and clothing should be selected,—how chronic ailments may be averted by timely attention to promonitory symptoms and recourse to the physician,”—and to popularize the “Philosophy of Common Things,” are the objects of the present Series of Household Handbooks.
Already issued:—
No. 1.—ETIQUETTE, SOCIAL ETHICS, AND THE COURTESIES OF SOCIETY.
Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5.—HOUSEHOLD MEDICINE AND SURGERY.