This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
One volume, 12mo. Cloth, or "Kitchen Edition,".......$1.75
Note. - The Dinner Year Book, with six colored plates, illustrating twenty-eight subjects, handsomely bound in cloth, will be continued in print at the regular price, #2.25.
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Woman's Handiwork
In Modern Homes.
By Constance Cary Harrison.
One Volume, 8vo, Richly Bound in Illuminated Cloth, with numerous Illustration and Five Colored Plates from designs by Samuel Colman, Rosina Emmet, GeoRge Gibson, and others.
Price, $2.00.
Mrs. Harrison's book combines a discussion of the principles of design and decoration, practical chapters on embroidery, painting on silk and china, etc., with most helpful hints as to the domestic manufacture of many objects of use and beauty in house-furnishing, and also suggestions for the arrangement and decoration of rooms in the details of screens, portieres, the mantel-piece, etc.
"A volume quite the most comprehensive of its kind ever published." - The Art Interchange.
"It is, indeed, the most comprehensive and practical guide to the amateur decorative arts that has yet appeared." - Art Amateur.
"The work supplies a current need of the day, which nothing else has met." - Boston Traveller.
" Unquestionably one of the very best of its class that we have." - N. Y. Evening Post.
" Mrs. Harrison has grouped together in her book about as much useful information as it is possible to get together in the same number of pages." - Baltimore Gazette.
" Mrs. Harrison's book is one of the very few books on household art which can be unreservedly commended." - The World.
"Mrs. Harrison's suggestions are within the reach of the most limited means." - The Critic.
"Full of suggestions, descriptions, and illustrations, of the kind that fascinate all those whose chief joy is in making home beautiful and happy." - N. Y. Observer.
"Everything important that relates to the furnishing and ornamentation of houses will be found in this work, which is rich in important information, and noticeable for its good taste, sound judgment, and practical wisdom." - Boston Saturday Eve. Gazette.
" Mrs. Harrison seems to have included in her work instructions for every aesthetic emergency that can arise in a household." - Providence Journal.
For sale by all booksellers, or sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price, by
Charles Scribners Sons. Publishers,
743 and 745 Broadway, New York.
" One of the ablest of recent American novels, and indeed of all recent works of fiction." - London Spectator.
 
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