improbable adjuncts. Unless, like Willielm Meister, your apprenticeship ended, you reach out of yourself and ask for larger duties, for a wider field of labor, you had better stay at home with father and mother, dignifying the relation of daughter, filling the old established home with the mild radiance which would seem but a dim light in a new one. TH E END. APPLETONS' HOME BOOKS. Appletong' Home Books are a Serle* of New Hand-Tolnmes at low price, devoted to all Sulijects pertaining to Home and the Hoiuehold. NOW READY: BUILDING A HOME. Illustrated. HOW TO FURNISH A HOME. Illustrated. THE HOME GARDEN. Illustrated. HOME GROUNDS. Illustrated. AMENITIES OF HOME. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. IN PREPARATION: HOME AMUSEMENTS. - HOME DECORATION. Illustrated. HOME-KEEPING. HOME REFINEMENTS. Other volumes to follow. - Bound in cloth, flexible, with illuminated design. 12mo. Price, 60 cents each. J^or iale by all booksellers ; or any work sent by maiiy post-paid^ on receipt of price. D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street, New York. Appletons' Periodicals. App/etOns' Journal : a Magazine of GeBeral Literature. Sub- scription, $8.00 per anDum ; single copy, 25 cents. The volumes begin January and July of each year. Cloth covers for the volumes, 60 cents each. The purpose of Appletons' Joubnal has been to provide intelligent readers with literature of a permanent and sterling character on all topics which afiect public welfare and general culture ; and it is the intention to adhere to this purpose in the future. Large space is given to Literary and Art Themes, to Discussions of Social Questions, to Critical and Speculative Essays, to Papers, original and selected, that in any way are likely to interest intelligent people, or which will reflect the intellectual activity of the age. Brilliant novelettes from French, British, and home writers are a feature. Considerable space is also given to comprehensive and analytical re- views of important new books. A sub-editorial department has been added, under the title of " Notes for Headers," in which will be preserved many minor things in literature of interest to readers. ** The Editor's Table," which has always enjoyed no little reputation for its acute and suggestive comments on current themes, is continued as hith- erto. The Popular Science Monthly : conductedhjKjj.findw, J. Youmans. Subscription, to begin at any time, $5.00 per annum ; single copy, 50 cents. The volumes begin May and November of each year. Cloth covers for the volumes, 50 cents each. The Popular Science Monthly represents the most valuable thought from the most advanced scientific men of the age in all countries. Its articles and abstracts of articles, original, selected, and illustrated, give accounts of all important discoveries and applications of science that are of general interest. Its pages will also be found faithfully to represent the progress of scien- tific ideas, as it affects the higher questions of human interest, such as those of the statesman, the philanthropist, the jurist, the financier, the educator, the divine, the artist, the historian, and the social reformer. The Popular Science Monthly is adapted to the wants of thoughtful, inquiring people. It is addressed to the intelligent classes of society, but treats its topics in a popular style, as free as possible from technicalities, and suited to the capacity and taste of general readers. A club of five will be sent one year to any address for $20,00. The Popular Science Monthly and Appletons' Journal, one year, for $7.00 (full price, $8.00). Subscriptions may begin at any time for any period. D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1.8, & 5 Bond Street, Nbw Yokk. 'i ALL AROUND THE HOUSE; OR, , HOW TO MAKE HOMES HAPPY. BT Mrs. HBNBT WABD BEECHEB, Author of "Motherly Talks," etc.

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improbable adjuncts. Unless, like Wilhelm Meister, your apprenticeship ended, you reach out of yourself and ask for larger duties, for a wider field of labor, you had better stay at home with father and mother, dignifying the relation of daughter, filling the old established home with the mild radiance which would seem but a dim light in a new one. TH E END. APPLETONS' HOME BOOKS. Appletong' Home Books are a Serle* of New Hand-Tolnmes at low price, devoted to all Sulijects pertaining to Home and the Hoiuehold. NOW READY: BUILDING A HOME. Illustrated. HOW TO FURNISH A HOME. Illustrated. THE HOME GARDEN. Illustrated. HOME GROUNDS. Illustrated. AMENITIES OF HOME. IN PREPARATION: HOME AMUSEMENTS. - HOME DECORATION. Illustrated. HOME-KEEPING. HOME REFINEMENTS. Other volumes to follow. - Bound in cloth, flexible, with illuminated design. 12mo. Price, 60 cents each. J^or iale by all booksellers ; or any work sent by maiiy post-paid^ on receipt of price. D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street, New York. Appletons' Periodicals. App/etOns' Journal : a Magazine of GeBeral Literature. Subscription, $8.00 per anDum ; single copy, 25 cents. The volumes begin January and July of each year. Cloth covers for the volumes, 60 cents each. The purpose of Appletons' Joubnal has been to provide intelligent readers with literature of a permanent and sterling character on all topics which afiect public welfare and general culture ; and it is the intention to adhere to this purpose in the future. Large space is given to Literary and Art Themes, to Discussions of Social Questions, to Critical and Speculative Essays, to Papers, original and selected, that in any way are likely to interest intelligent people, or which will reflect the intellectual activity of the age. Brilliant novelettes from French, British, and home writers are a feature. Considerable space is also given to comprehensive and analytical reviews of important new books. A sub-editorial department has been added, under the title of " Notes for Headers," in which will be preserved many minor things in literature of interest to readers. ** The Editor's Table," which has always enjoyed no little reputation for its acute and suggestive comments on current themes, is continued as hitherto. The Popular Science Monthly : conductedhjKjj.findw, J. Youmans. Subscription, to begin at any time, $5.00 per annum ; single copy, 50 cents. The volumes begin May and November of each year. Cloth covers for the volumes, 50 cents each. The Popular Science Monthly represents the most valuable thought from the most advanced scientific men of the age in all countries. Its articles and abstracts of articles, original, selected, and illustrated, give accounts of all important discoveries and applications of science that are of general interest. Its pages will also be found faithfully to represent the progress of scientific ideas, as it affects the higher questions of human interest, such as those of the statesman, the philanthropist, the jurist, the financier, the educator, the divine, the artist, the historian, and the social reformer. The Popular Science Monthly is adapted to the wants of thoughtful, inquiring people. It is addressed to the intelligent classes of society, but treats its topics in a popular style, as free as possible from technicalities, and suited to the capacity and taste of general readers. A club of five will be sent one year to any address for $20,00. The Popular Science Monthly and Appletons' Journal, one year, for $7.00 (full price, $8.00). Subscriptions may begin at any time for any period. D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1.8, & 5 Bond Street, Nbw Yokk. 'i ALL AROUND THE HOUSE; OR, , HOW TO MAKE HOMES HAPPY. BT Mrs. HBNBT WABD BEECHEB, Author of "Motherly Talks," etc.

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