27 JUNE 1903, Page 13

The New Home. By Mrs. C. S. Peel. (A. Constable

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mrs. Peel prefixes to this second edition of her very useful book a new introduction, in which she insists on several principles of house arrangement, furnishing, decoration, &c., which seem obvious enough, but are, in fact, very much neglected. We think that Mrs. Peel puts the matter a little too strongly when she says that "every year servants demand higher wages and undertake less work "—employers are, we believe, more to blame than the employed for the servant difficulty—but she is quite right in the recommendations which she makes in the direction of labour-saving. Her book is dis- tinctly worth reading.