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(1) THE author of “The Mothercraft Manual,”—who is a director of the School of Mothercraft in New York, complains that the word mothercraft is coming into general use, especially in England, in a much narrower sense than it was intended to bear. Certainly the aim of her book is a wide one. It is, briefly, to make available to “home-makers, present and prospective,” some of the wealth of knowledge gained by students of biology, hygiene, child-psychology, and other sciences by translating it into the language of everyday life.
(1) The Mothercraft Manual.
Mary L. Read. Pp. xviii + 440. (London: George G. Harrap and Co.) Price 5s. net.
(2) The Home and the Family: An Elementary Text-book of Home-making.
("The Home-making Series.") By Prof. Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley. Pp. vi + 292. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
(3) Food Gardening for Beginners and Experts.
H. Valentine Davis. Pp. vii + 44. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1917.) Price 6d. net.
(4) One Hundred Points in Food Economy.
J. Grant Ramsay. Preface by Prof. W. D. Halliburton. Unpaged. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1917.) Price 1s. net.
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T., M. (1) The Mothercraft Manual (2) The Home and the Family: An Elementary Text-book of Home-making (3) Food Gardening for Beginners and Experts (4) One Hundred Points in Food Economy. Nature 100, 3–4 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100003a0
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