The Economics of the Household. By Louise Creighton. (Long- mans
and Co. ls. 4d.)—The six lectures which make up this book were given to the London County Council's teachers of domestic economy. The lecturer sought to put before her audience the general aspect of the subject which they had to teach, to make them understand the practical problems which the wife and mother in the artisan and labouring class has to grapple with. Mrs. Creighton does not shrink from using plain speech. Whatever the virtues of the labouring man and woman, they are more improvident, wasteful, and ignorant than the French, the German, or the Italian. "In many houses," says Mrs. Creighton, "there is seldom anything like a regular meal." In others there is the evening meal which the children share with the father; they are given pence to satisfy their hunger in the day, and, of course, often spend them on sweets. Hence the cry for school-meals,—a remedy which would but make the disease worse. A most useful book this, which others besides teachers might study with much profit.
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