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The Household Library
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selection to meet his own views or tastes, and omitting anything which may seem unsuitable.


SUGGESTIONS FOR A GENERAL HOUSEHOLD
LIBRARY.

Science.

Ball. Story of the Heavens.
Bates. Naturalist on the Amazons.
Bettany. The World's Inhabitants.
Buckley. History of Natural Science.
Burroughs. Wake Robin.
Clodd. Story of Creation.
Darwin. Descent of Man.
Faraday. Chemical History of a Candle.
Furneaux. The Out-door World.
Huxley. Physiology.
Jefferies. Life of the Fields.
Johnston. Chemistry of Common Life.
Lyell. Elements of Geology.
Mivart. Groundwork of Science.
Rodway. In the Guiana Forest.
Step. Wayside Blossoms.
Thoreau. Walden.
Tyndall. Fragments of Science.
Wallace. Island Life.
White. Natural History of Selborne.


Useful and Fine Arts.

Bohn. Handbook of Games.
Boutell. British Archeology.
Drury. Book of Gardening.
Fletcher. History of Architecture.
Inman. Preservation of Health.
Matthew. Musical History.
Richardson. Diseases of Modern Life.
Robinson. English Flower Garden.
Routledge. Discoveries and Inventions.
Ruskin. Art of England.
—— Lectures on Art.
—— Seven Lamps of Architecture.
Walton-Cotton. Compleat Angler.