_From the Boston Commonwealth._ "It is a boy's story--that is, supposed to be written by a boy--and has all the freshness, the unconscious simplicity and _naiveté_ which the imagined authorship should imply; while nothing more graphic, more clearly and vividly pictorial, has been brought before the public for many a day." _Any or all of the above volumes sent, post-paid, upon receipt of the price by the publishers_, SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO.), _654 Broadway, New York_ * * * * * "The very best, the most sensible, the most practical, the most honest book on this matter of getting up good dinners, and living in a decent Christian way, that has yet found its way in our household."--_Watchman and Reflector._ COMMON SENSE _In the Household._ A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL HOUSEWIFERY, By MARION HARLAND, Author of "Alone," "Hidden Path," "Nemesis," &c., &c. One vol. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 75 _SEE WHAT THE CRITICS, AND PRACTICAL HOUSEKEEPERS, say of it_: "And now we have from another popular novelist a cookery book, whereof our housekeeper (this literary recorder is not a bachelor) speaks most enthusiastically. She says that simplicity and clearness of expression, accuracy of detail, a regard to economy of material, and certainty of good results, are requisites in a useful receipt-book for the kitchen, and Marion Harland has comprehended all these. That she has by experience proved the unsatisfactoriness of housekeepers' helps in general is shown by the arrangement of her book. She has appended a star to such recipes as, after having tried them herself, she can recommend as safe and generally simple. Such a directory will be a great help to one who goes to the book for aid in preparing a pleasant and savory meal without much experience in cooking. The language is so simple, and the directions so plain, that a reasonably intelligent cook might avail herself of it to vary her manner of preparing even ordinary dishes. The introduction to the book should be printed as a tract and put in every house. The simple advice for the management of servants, the general directions at the head of each department of cooking, and the excellent pages on the sick-room, make as complete an aid to housekeepers as can well be desired."--_Harper's Monthly._ "In the hands of the author, whose name is well known in another department of literature, the subject has been treated with thoroughness and skill, showing that a little common sense may be as successful in the concoction of a toothsome viand as in the composition of a romance."--_N. Y. Daily Tribune._ "It inspires us with a great respect for the housewifery of a literary lady, and we cannot err in predicting for it a wide popularity."--_N. Y. Evening Post._