Part 11
“What shall we do to amuse ourselves and our friends?” is a question frequently propounded on rainy days and long winter evenings. ¶ This volume most happily answers this question, as it contains a splendid collection of all kinds of games for amusement, entertainment, and instruction. ¶ The games are adapted to both old and young, and all classes will find them both profitable and interesting.
ASTRONOMY:
The Sun and His Family
By Julia MacNair Wright
Can you tell what causes day and night, seasons and years, tides and eclipses? Why is the sky blue and Mars red? What are meteors and shooting stars? ¶ These and a thousand other questions are answered in a most fascinating way in this highly interesting volume. Few books contain as much valuable material so pleasantly packed in so small a space. ¶ Illustrated.
BOTANY:
The Story of Plant Life
By Julia MacNair Wright
The scientific study of Botany made as interesting as a fairy tale. ¶ It is better reading than such tales, because of the profit. ¶ Each chapter is devoted to the month of the year in which plants of that month are in evidence. Not only is the subject treated with accuracy, but there is given much practical information as to the care and treatment of plants and flowers. ¶ Illustrated.
FLOWERS:
How to Grow Them
By Eben E. Rexford
Every woman loves flowers, but few succeed in growing them. With the help so clearly given in this book no one need fail. ¶ It treats mainly of in-door flowers and plants--those for window gardening; all about their selection, care, soil, air, light, warmth, etc. ¶ The chapter on table decoration alone is worth the price of the book. While the subject of flowers is quite thoroughly covered, the style used is plain, simple, and free from all technicalities.
DANCING
By Marguerite Wilson
A complete instructor, beginning with the first positions and steps and leading up to the square and round dances. ¶ It contains a full list of calls for all of the square dances, and the appropriate music for each figure, the etiquette of the dances, and 100 figures for the German. ¶ It is unusually well illustrated by a large number of original drawings. ¶ Without doubt the best book on the subject.
ASTROLOGY
By M. M. Macgregor
If you wish to obtain a horoscope of your entire life, or if you would like to know in what business or profession you will best succeed, what friends you should make, whom you should marry, the kind of a person to choose for a business partner, or the time of the month in which to begin an enterprise, you will find these and hundreds of other vital questions solved in this book by the science of Astrology.
GRAPHOLOGY:
How to Read Character from Handwriting
By Clifford Howard
Do you know that every time you write five or six lines your furnish a complete record of your character? Anyone who understands Graphology can tell by simply examining your handwriting just what sort of a person you are. ¶ There is no method of character reading that is more interesting, more trustworthy, and more valuable than that of Graphology, and it is the aim of this volume to enable anyone to become a master of this most fascinating art.
PRACTICAL PALMISTRY
By Henry Frith
The hand shows the man, but many who believe in palmistry have found no ready access to its principles. ¶ This little guide to it is complete, trustworthy, and yet simple in arrangement. ¶ With this book and a little practice anyone may read character surely, recall past events, and forecast the future. ¶ Fully illustrated.
CIVICS: What Every Citizen Should Know
By George Lewis
This book answers a multitude of questions of interest to everyone. ¶ It gives intelligent, concise, and complete information on such topics as the Monroe Doctrine, Behring Sea Controversy, Extradition Treaties, Basis of Taxation, and fully explains the meaning of Habeas Corpus, Free Coinage, Civil Service, Australian Ballot, and a great number of other equally interesting subjects.
LAW, AND HOW TO KEEP OUT OF IT
By Paschal H. Coggins, Esq.
Most legal difficulties arise from ignorance of the minor points of law. ¶ This book furnishes to the busy man and woman knowledge of just such points as are most likely to arise in every-day affairs, and thus protects them against mental worry and financial loss. ¶ Not only is this information liberally given, but every point is so explained and illustrated that the reader will not only understand the law on the subject, but cannot fail to remember it.
CLASSICAL DICTIONARY
By Edward S. Ellis, A. M.
All literature abounds in classical allusions, but many do not understand their meaning. ¶ The force of an argument or the beauty of an illustration is therefore often lost. ¶ To avoid this, everyone should have at hand a complete dictionary such as this. ¶ It contains all the classical allusions worth knowing, and they are so ready of access as to require little or no time in looking up.
PLUTARCH’S LIVES
By Edward S. Ellis, A. M.
Plutarch was the most famous biographer and one of the most delightful essayists who ever lived. ¶ To him we are indebted for an intimate acquaintance with many famous Greeks and Romans who made history and who still live. ¶ This book is a condensed form of the original “Lives.” ¶ All the personages likely to be inquired about are mentioned, and what is told of them is just what one most wishes to know.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=.
The format of the chapter titles has been regularised.
Obvious printing mistakes have been corrected.
Variations in spelling remain as in the original unless noted below.
Page 86, “with” changed to “With” (“With this system in general”). Page 125, “encouragment” changed to “encouragement.” Page 135, “skilful” changed do “skillful.” Popular Hand-books, page 8, “nteresting” changed to “interesting.” Popular Hand-books, page 10, “german” changed to “German.”