7 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 26

Marriage on Two Hundred a Year. By Mary Halliday (H.

Marshall and Sons. ls.)—The title of this little volume speaks for itself. We do not say that the housewife who reads it will accomplish the result aimed at; she will certainly learn some- thing. Here is the outline of the weekly expenditure "milk, 68.; butcher, 5s. ; vegetables, 3s. ; groceries, 7s.; bread, 2s. 6d." The first item looks large, but we are not sure that it is so; the second is certainly small, but then flesh is a very costly food. When you have deducted—especially from such a joint as the neck—the skin, bone, fat, and waste in cooking, the actual food is very costly. But we cannot go through Mrs. Halliday's book in detail. It must suffice to say that it is worth reading