What Every One Should Know. A cyclopedia of Practical Information, containing complete directions for making and doing over 5,000 things necessary in business, the trades, the shop, the home, the farm, and the kitchen, giving in plain language recipes, prescriptions, medicines, manufacturing processes, trade secrets, chemical preparations, mechanical appliances, aid to injured, business information, law, home decorations, art work, fancy work, agriculture, fruit culture, stock-raising, and hundreds of other useful hints and helps needed in our daily wants. By S. H. Burt. 516 pages. Cloth, 12mo, price $1.00.
"A mass of information in a handy form, easy of access whenever occasion demands."—Inter-Ocean, Chicago.
Readers' Reference Hand-Book. Comprising "A Handy Classical and Mythological Dictionary" of brief and concise explanations of ancient mythological, historical and geographical allusions commonly met with in literature and art, also "Famous People of All Ages," a manual of condensed biographies of the most notable men and women who ever lived. By H. C. Faulkner and W. H. Van Orden. Cloth, 12mo, price $1.00.
"This book will serve a useful purpose to many readers, and will save time lost in consulting dictionaries of larger scope."—The Churchman.
Writers' Reference Hand-Book. Comprising a manual of the "Art of Correspondence," with correct forms for letters of a commercial, social and ceremonial nature, and with copious explanatory matter. Also "A Handy Dictionary of Synonyms," with which are combined the words opposite in meaning. Prepared to facilitate fluency and exactness in writing. By Jennie Taylor Wandle and H. C. Faulkner. Cloth, 12mo, price $1.00.
"Crowded full and even running over with proper and effective words must be the writer who will not occasionally find this work of great convenience and assistance to him."—The Delineator.
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Etiquette, Health and Beauty. Comprising "The Usages Of the Best Society," a manual of social etiquette, and "Talks with Homely Girls on Health and Beauty," containing chapters upon the general care of the health, and the preservation and cultivation of beauty in the complexion, hands, etc. By Frances Stevens and Frances M. Smith. Cloth, 12mo, price $1.00.
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The National Standard Dictionary. A pronouncing lexicon of the English Language, containing 40,000 words, and illustrated with 700 wood-cuts, to which is added an appendix of useful and valuable information. 600 pages. Cloth, 12mo, price $1.00.