=The Glass of Fashion: A Universal= Handbook of Social Etiquette and Home Culture for Ladies and Gentlemen. With Copious and Practical Hints upon the Manners and Ceremonies of every Relation in Life—at Home, in Society, and at Court. Interspersed with Numerous Anecdotes. By the LOUNGER IN SOCIETY. CHAP. 1. AT HOME. 2. ABROAD. 3. THE PHILOSOPHY OF DINNERS. 4. THE BALL. 5. THE PHILOSOPHY OF DRESS. 6. THE ART OF CONVERSATION. 7. THE ETIQUETTE OF WEDDINGS. 8. AT COURT. 9. HINTS ABOUT TITLES. 10. A HEALTHY LIFE. 11. TWO CENTURIES OF MAXIMS UPON MANNERS. 12. THE HOUSEHOLD. “The most sensible book on etiquette that we remember to have seen.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._ “This book may be considered a new departure in the class of works to which it belongs. It treats etiquette ‘from a liberal point of view,’ and amply fulfils its purpose.”—_Cassell’s Papers._ “Useful, sensibly written, and full of amusing illustrative anecdotes.”—_Morning Post._ “Creditable to the good sense and taste, as well as to the special information of its author.”—_Telegraph._ “The book is the best of the kind yet produced, and no purchaser of it will regret his investment.”—_Bristol Mercury._ “Those who live in dread lest they should not do the ‘correct thing’ should procure the book, which is a complete society encyclopædia.”—_Glasgow News._ WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS ON TONED PAPER. Second edition, small crown 8vo., 352 pp., cloth, price 3s. 6d.; gilt edges, 4s. =Girls and their Ways: A Book for and= about Girls. By ONE WHO KNOWS THEM. CHAP. 1. THE GIRL AT HOME. 2. THE GIRL IN HER LEISURE HOURS. 3. THE GIRL AT SCHOOL—THE GIRL AND HER FRIENDS. 4. THE GIRL ABROAD: CHARACTER SKETCHES. 5. A GIRL’S GARDEN; IN PROSE AND POETRY. 6. THE GIRL’S AMATEUR GARDENER’S CALENDAR; OR, ALL THE YEAR ROUND IN THE GIRL’S GARDEN. 7. THE GIRL’S LIBRARY—WHAT TO READ. 8. THE GIRL IN THE COUNTRY—PASTIME FOR LEISURE HOURS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 9. WHAT THE GIRL MIGHT AND SHOULD BE: EXAMPLES OF NOBLE GIRLS FROM THE LIVES OF NOBLE WOMEN. “It aims high, and it hits the mark.”—_Literary World_. “Books prepared for girls are too often so weak and twaddly as to be an insult to the intellect of girlhood. This new work is an exception.”—_Daily Review_ (_Edinburgh_). “Worthy of a somewhat longer analysis than we shall be able to give it.... Parents will be benefited by its perusal as well as their daughters ... the more so that it is not written in a dry homiletic style, but with a living kindness and sympathy.”—_Queen._ “A long list of books is given both for study and amusement. This list is selected with care and without prejudice, and should prove a great assistance to girls in doubt what to read.... It is a sensible and well-written book, full of information and wholesome thoughts for and about girls.”—_St. James’s Budget._