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APPLETONS’
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Appletons’ Home Books are a Series of New Hand-Volumes
at low price, devoted to all Subjects pertaining
to Home and the Household.

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NOW READY:

Other volumes to follow.

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Bound in cloth, flexible, with illuminated design. 12mo. Price, 60 cents each.

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For sale by all booksellers; or any work sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price.

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New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street.

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NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION.

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Social Etiquette of New York.

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CONTENTS:

The Value of Etiquette; Introductions; Solicitations; Strangers in Towns; DÉbuts in Society; Visiting, and Visiting Cards for Ladies; Card and Visiting Customs for Gentlemen; Morning Receptions and Kettle-Drums; Giving and attending Parties, Balls, and Germans; Dinner-giving and Dining out; Breakfasts, Luncheons, and Suppers; Opera and Theatre Parties, Private Theatricals, and Musicales; Extended Visits; Customs and Costumes at Theatres, Concerts, and Operas (being two additional chapters written for this edition); Etiquette of Weddings (rewritten, for this edition, in accordance with the latest fashionable usage); Christenings and Birthdays; Marriage Anniversaries; New Year’s Day in New York; Funeral Customs and Seasons of Mourning.

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18mo, cloth, gilt, price, $1.00.

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“A sensible and brief treatise, which young persons may profitably read.”—New York Evening Post.

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D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1, 3, & 5 Bond St., New York.

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The Music Series.

The Great German Composers. By George T. Ferris. Paper, 30 cents; cloth, 60 cents.

By the same author.

The Great Italian and French Composers. Paper, 30 cents; cloth, 60 cents.

Great Singers. First Series. Paper, 30 cents; cloth, 60 cents.

Great Singers. Second Series. Paper, 30 cents; cloth, 60 cents.

Great Violinists and Pianists. Paper, 40 cents; cloth, 60 cents.

? Above volumes appear in Appletons’ “New Handy-Volume Series,” and are published in uniform style, both in paper and cloth, prices of which are given above.

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BOOKS ON ART.

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I.

Introduction to the Study of Art.

By M. A. Dwight, author of “Grecian and Roman Mythology.” 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.

II.

Great Lights in Sculpture and Painting.

A Manual for Young Students. By S. D. Doremus. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.

“This little volume has grown out of a want long felt by a writer who desired to take a class through the history of the great sculptors and painters, as a preliminary step to an intelligent journey through Europe.”—From Preface.

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Schools and Masters of Painting.

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“The volume is one of great practical utility, and may be used to advantage as an artistic guide-book by persons visiting the collections of Italy, France, and Germany, for the first time. The twelve great pictures of the world, which are familiar by copies and engravings to all who have the slightest tincture of taste for art, are described in a special chapter, which affords a convenient stepping-stone to a just appreciation of the most celebrated masterpieces of painting. An important feature of the work, and one which may save the traveler much time and expense, is the sketch presented in the Appendix, of the galleries of Florence, Rome, Venice, Paris, Dresden, and other European collections.”—N. Y. Tribune.

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A Manual of Painting, for the Student and Amateur; with Information for the General Reader. By Horace J. Rollin. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

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V.

Ruskin on Painting.

With a Biographical Sketch. (Forming No. 29 of Appletons’ “New Handy-Volume Series.”) 18mo. Paper, 30 cents; cloth, 60 cents.

VI.

Majolica and Fayence:

Italian, Sicilian, Majorcan, Hispano-Moresque, and Persian. By Arthur Beckwith. With Photo-Engraved Illustrations. Second edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.

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