therefore, we are much pleased to place in your hands, dear Reader, with our best wishes
"May its precepts improve thee, its spirit engage,
And its sentiments soften and cheer;
May it keep thy affections in freshness and bloom;
Console thee, and teach thee, and guide;
Be a flower in the sunshine, a star in the gloom,
A book for the Home Fireside."
The seasons are growing so perverse, that it may not be quite out of place, even at this time of the year, to mention the " fireside," though this volume is especially a book for the sands, and for the glens, and for the fields, and for the woods, and for the window corner, when the summer breeze is softly waving the ripe corn spread out before you; and for the seat in the arbour, when "the flowers are blooming everywhere, and the trees are spreading a grateful shade.”
If the labours of the Grecian sage smelt of the lamp, we trust that our labours herein smell of the sweet summer; of the garden and the grove, the hay-field and the harvest-home--and that our work will be accepted as an offering at the Midsummer feast of Nature, which our forefathers were wont to celebrate by a solemn festival.
MIDSUMMER, 1860.
DOMESTIC HINTS AND
RECEIPTS.
•
Arsenic, Antidote to
55
Barley Water
. 305
Bread Powders
305
Beef Steak, to Cook a
180
Bronchitis, Certain Cure for 305
Carpets, the Care of
180
Cistern Cement
. 117
Caustic, or Nitrate of Silver,
to remove the Stain of
frcm Linen
Children's Clothes to pre-
vent taking Fire
Colds from excessive Fatigue
in Wet Weather
Diphtheria, Salt in
Devonshire Stew.
Egg, how to Eat in
how to Cook an
Face-ache, Receipt for
Freezing of Water Pipes, to
Prevent
117
Glass or China, to Mend
• 305
Ground Rice Pudding.
Housemaids, a Hint to
Hasty Dumplings
Meat, Salt, to make Fresh
Milk from turning Sour, to
Prevent
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DOMESTIC HINTS, continued.
Page.
Sick, Refreshing Drinks for
the
Silk, to Clean
.
Soda in Washing, Mode of
Employing
Sponges, to Clean
Toast and Water
240
. 180
•
240
Tin, Brass, and Britannia
Metal, to Glean
180
Tooth Brushes, Choice and
Management of
180
180
Welsh Rabbit, a First-rate
Weak Eyes, Cure for
240
EASTERN RAMBLES AND
REMINISCENCES.
RAMBLE I.-Beyrout to Da-
mascus
RAMBLE II. -Damascus
The Bath-Consular Abode
-Bazaars.
RAMBLE III.-Damascus-
Bazaars-Shops-Cafes-
The Barrada-The Khans 125
RAMBLE IV. Damascus -
Its History and Antiquity
-Mountain Travel- An
Awkward Shot - Arrival
at Baalbec
RAMBLE V.-Baalbec -The
Emir, Hangiar Harfoosh
187
-The Lost Steed Re-
stored-An Eastern Des-
patch-Baalbec and its
History
RAMBLE VI.-Baalbec, its
Ruins by Moonlight and
Sunrise Metaweli Wo-
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Nouns and Adjectives, of
Number
Nouns which are objects of
another Noun
Nouns, Of, used with the
Prepositions if, de, but
not preceded immediately
by another
Nouns, Of, which are either
Masculine or Feminine
Nouns which have no Sin-
gular.
Nouns, Formation of the
Plural, &c.
113
Nouns, Orthography of, end-
ing in ant and ent
Nouns, Functions of the, in
Language.
115
Substantive, Of
28
Of Gender in the 28
OfNumberin the
28, 112
Proper Names, Of the For-
mation of the Plural in
Proper Names, Represent-
ing two or more indivi-
duals in the same family. 113
Proper Names, which have
113
become Common Names, of 113
NATURALISTS.
A Devoted Naturalist
A Donkey's Revenge
Agama and Agami
An Ancient Bird's Nest
Bees, About.
Removal of
Beetles, Burying
Birds, Eccentric
Animals Imitating Death
Barleston Grubs
Barnacles
Alimentation of
Preservation of
Species of .
Stuffing
Bread, Blood Spots in
Brute Instinct and Human
Wit
Bullfinch, the, and his Cha-
racteristics
Ceylon Insects
11
A Disembowelled
Gloworms
Golden Eagle, a Magnificent 225
Gulls, Observations on
Horse, a Piebald
Horse versus Lion
Insects.
On making a Collec-
351
12
353
12
tion of
Kyloe Cows
Lapwing, The
Lichen.
226
Locomotion, Quickest Rate of 294
Mad Dog, Charm against the
Bite of a
105
226
Magpie-Sperstition 12, 170
Mould Wasp
Nightingale, the Neapolitan 104
Oyster Catcher
168, 227
Partridge, Late Nesting of the 225
Pearls, Formation of 227, 295
Petrels
Porcupine,
The
Rabbit, The.
Purple Emperor, The
102
11
.168
Raven, an Old
Rose Maggot, The
Ruff and Reeve
Salamander, The
Sea Anemone
.171
225
105, 170
293
10, 135, 358
11
105
Shock Dog
Silk Worms, New Species of 9
Squirrel, The
Stork, the Egyptian
102
353
Study of Nature
105
Swallow's Nests
.103
235
169
Wild Swan, The
Wolf's Tooth, A
9
102
226
224
Wryneck, The
What is a Reptile ?
227, 295
Wombat, the
352
Zetland Pony, Knight-er-
rantry of the
Zoological Gardens, The
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