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Practical Housekeeping, or the Duties of a Homewife. By Mrs.

Pedley. (Routledge.)—This little shilling manual is worth its weight in gold to the class it addresses. It is not confined to the ordinary duties of housekeeping, as we should infer from its title, but it goes into many other subjects which the ladies of the house leave to their hus- bands, and which their husbands are too busy to consider. Drainage, ventilation, pure water, and suchlike sanitary matters, have all their turn, and to wives with children such things cannot be too momentous. Mrs. Pedley's rules are simple and clear ; her range of subjects is large, and she elucidates whatever she touches.