"We have read most of them with great care, for we are very watchful over books for the young, and can assure our readers they are well worth a mother's attention. They vary in interest and in moral value, but all of them are calculated both to amuse and instruct. Some convey valuable historical information, others lessons in natural history, and most of them convey a healthy moral influence. All are subservient to religion as well as morals, but they are not tinctured with any ism, nor do they inculcate any peculiar tenets."—British Mothers' Journal.
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1. HOME-MADE WINES. How to Make and Keep them, with remarks on preparing the fruit, fining, bottling, and storing. By G. VINE. Contains Apple, Apricot, Beer, Bilberry, Blackberry, Cherry, Clary, Cowslip, Currant, Damson, Elderberry, Gooseberry, Ginger, Grape, Greengage, Lemon, Malt, Mixed Fruit, Mulberry, Orange, Parsnip, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Raisin, Sloe, Strawberry, Turnip, Vine Leaf, and Mead.
2. CARVING MADE EASY; or, Practical Instructions for Diners Out. Illustrated with Engravings of Fish, Flesh, and Fowl, and appropriate instructions, whereby a complete and skilful knowledge of the useful art of Carving may be attained, and the usages of the Dinner Table duly observed. By A. Merrythought.
3. COTTAGE COOKERY. Containing Simple Instructions upon Money, Time, Management of Provisions, Firing, Utensils, Choice of Provisions, Modes of Cooking, Stews, Soups, Broths, Puddings, Pies, Fat, Pastry, Vegetables, Modes of Dressing Meat, Bread, Cakes, Buns, Salting or Curing Meat, Frugality and Cheap Cookery, Charitable Cookery, Cookery for the Sick and Young Children. By Esther Copley.
4. COTTAGE FARMING; or, How to Cultivate from Two to Twenty Acres, including the Management of Cows, Pigs, and Poultry. By Martin Doyle. Contains, On Enclosing a Farm, Land Drainage, Manures, Management of a Two-acre Farm, Cow Keeping, The Dairy, Pig Keeping, Bees and Poultry, Management of a Ten-acre Farm, Flax and Rape, Management of a Farm of Twenty Acres, Farm Buildings, etc.
5. SINGING MADE EASIER FOR AMATEURS, explaining the pure Italian Method of Producing and Cultivating the Voice; the Management of the Breath; the best way of Improving the Ear; with much other valuable information equally valuable to Professional Singers and Amateurs.
6. MARKET GARDENING, giving in detail the various methods adopted by Gardeners in growing the Strawberry, Rhubarb, Filberts, Early Potatoes, Asparagus, Sea Kale, Cabbages, Cauliflowers, Celery, Beans, Peas, Brussels Sprouts, Spinach, Radishes, Lettuce, Onions, Carrots, Turnips, Water Cress, etc. By James Cuthill, F.R.H.S.
7. CLERK'S DICTIONARY OF COMMERCIAL TERMS; containing Explanations of upwards of Three Hundred Terms used in Business and Merchants' Offices. By the Author of "Common Blunders in Speaking and Writing Corrected."
"An indispensable book for all young men entering a counting-house for the first time."
8. THE CAT, Its History and Diseases, with Method of Administering Medicine. By the Honourable Lady Cust.
9. ELOCUTION MADE EASY for Clergymen, Public Speakers, and Readers, Lecturers, Actors, Theatrical Amateurs, and all who wish to speak well and effectively in Public or Private. By Charles Hartley. Contents: Cultivation of the Speaking Voice, Management of the Voice, Pausing, Taking Breath, Pitch, Articulation, Pronunciation, The Aspirate, The Letter R, Emphasis, Tone, Movement, Feeling and Passion, Verse, Scriptural Reading, Stammering and Stuttering, Action, Acting, Reciting, etc.
10. ORATORY MADE EASY. A Guide to the Composition of Speeches. By Charles Hartley. Contents: Introduction, Power of Art, Various Kinds of Oratory, Prepared Speech, Constructing a Speech, Short Speeches, Command of Language, Reading and Thinking, Style, Hasty Composition, Forming a Style, Copiousness and Conciseness, Diction or Language, Purity and Propriety, Misapplied Words, Monosyllables, Specific Terms, Variety of Language, Too Great Care about Words, Epithets, Precision, Synonymes, Perspicuity, Long and Short Sentences, Tropes and Figures, Metaphor, Simile, etc.
11. THE GRAMMATICAL REMEMBRANCER; or, Aids for correct Speaking, Writing, and Spelling, for Adults. By Charles Hartley. Contents: Introduction, Neglect of English Grammar, Divisions of Grammar, Parts of Speech, The Article, The Silent H, Nouns, Formation of the Plural, Genders of Nouns, Cases of Nouns, Comparison of Adjectives, Personal Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns, Regular and Irregular Verbs, Shall and Will, The Adverb, Misapplication of Words, Division of Words, Capital Letters, Rules for Spelling, Double l and p, A Short Syntax, Punctuation, etc.
12. THE CANARY. Its History, Varieties, Management, and Breeding, with Coloured Frontispiece. By Richard Avis. Contains, History of the Canary, Varieties of the Canary, Food and General Management, Cages, Breeding, Education of the Young, Mules, Diseases, etc.
13. BIRD PRESERVING and Bird Mounting, and the Preservation of Birds' Eggs, with a Chapter on Bird Catching. By Richard Avis.
14. WINE GUIDE; or, Practical Hints on the Purchase and Management of Foreign Wines, their History, and a complete catalogue of all those in present use, together with remarks upon the treatment of Spirits, Bottled Beer, and Cider. To which is appended Instructions for the Cellar, and other information valuable to the Consumer as well as the Dealer. By Frederick C. Mills.
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