122. TO DRESS SPINACH IN THE WAY.-Pick the spinach leaf by leaf fr stems, and wash it in spring water, cha several times; then shake it in a dry cloth. it into sufficient well-salted boiling water it to float freely, and keep it pressed down skimmer, that it may be equally done. Wh young, it will be tender in ten minutes. thoroughly, and when it is cool, form it in and press the moisture from it. Next, ch upon a trencher; put two ounces (for a la of butter into a saucepan, lay the spin and keep it stirred over a gentle fire u dredge in a spoonful of flour, and turn the as it is added; pour to it gradually a fe fuls of veal gravy. Stew the whole bris the gravy is absorbed.-G. M. F. G.

23. L.W.-THE BEST WAY TO REAR A FROM A SLIP.-Cuttings of the myrile struck in a little bottom heat during the of June, July, and August; but with tainty in July. As soon as they have t freely, pot them off into thumb-pots, repotting them as fast as those they come filled with fibres. Give them airw the weather will permit of it, and water as requisite that is to say, when you them, do it in earnest. In all other resp will require precisely the same treatmen recommended for window plants in g G. M. F. G.

OUR Christmas offerings are at an end,-so is our volume. Like the "Pilgrim there is no rest for us,-"right onward we rove" in search of supplies for another volume. production should be better than its antecedent, so we fondly hope that the volume we h farewell of, will not lose in comparison with any of those of the past; and that the one so a commenced will be found, in its maturity, to be an improvement on this. We have given broad field to work in; but while our ambition is to be universal, nothing inadmissible pure portals of an English home will ever disfigure our pages. We would earn for ours reputation for purity of purpose, and elevation of tone, which will permit us to range u among the young and the aged, the learned and the humbly educated; to share the firesi and cultivate amongst all a love for healthy literature.

LONDON:

H. TUCK, PRINTER, 16 AND 17, NEW STREET, CLOTH FAIR,

WEST SMITHFIELD.

PREFACE.

THAT we are enabled to make our appearance with the roses of June, is e of the happy results of the enlargement made at the unanimous vitation of those who for so many years have welcomed our monthly rtions. We therefore anticipate no less warm a greeting for our lidsummer offering than has been accorded to our Christmas volumes,

Whilst acknowledging that the celebrity and highest distinction of our agazine arises from its home influence and character, we must assume gh ground for it also as a companion and instructor, full of recreative ading as well as correct information and sound teaching. It is in the aracter of a Book for summer study, at once playful and instructive, that now present ourselves; and, after glancing at a few of the leading ntents of the volume, our readers shall say whether or not we have sumed too much.

The Work contains merry tales, dramatic tales, pathetic tales, and tales the affections;—Original Poetry, of a class to exalt all who come ader its charming influence ;-Biographies of the great and good, minding us “that we can make our lives sublime ;"-interesting epimes of Books of Mark;-and something for the children-something that eads them by the most interesting steps to an acquaintance with the glories f Creation, and the development of the moral powers;-it also contains carce, experimental, and valuable Notes for Naturalists ;-useful designs n the higher branches of Needlework, and Paper Modelling, which can be is conveniently carried out during walks abroad, as in evenings at home-an interesting and pictorial Calendar of the Months, shewing the local customs that prevailed, with notices of the great who were born In them;-it contains choice Fables with moral applications ;—delightful readings of the wonders in Science and Art; and, finally, it contains, in an epistolary form, thoughts on Self-culture, Health, the Social Sabbath,

the Value of Occupation, and the Force of Example ;-besides spar Wit and Humour from the gay, and gems of thought from the prof contributed by the thoughtful minds that constitute our "Coun Friends."

If more be needed to enlist the favour of the reader, we must respect refer him to the index, which has a choice of upwards of five hu articles, all alike conducive to the best interests of mankind, and full purest delights of which the heart is susceptible.

We have often desired to resume an existence at this period of the when Nature strews the earth with her flowers, and calls forth her ficent harvests; for it is then the human family, influenced by her s take their pleasant strolls by the sea shore, in the sunshine of the me or the shade of the forest; and it is then, more than at any other tim companionship of a Family Friend"-one who blends amusement instruction, and elevation with refinement is welcomed and appre Such being our anticipation, we herewith commend our "Family Fr to the reader, feeling assured it will be as much esteemed in the st ramble as by the fireside of home.

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Go, little booke; God send thee good passage!"