GARDENING AND AGRICULTURE Flemwell, George. The flower-fields of Alpine Switzerland; an appreciation and a plea; painted and written by G. Flemwell. 1911. Hood, G. W. Laboratory manual of horticulture. 1915. Leake, A. H. The means and methods of agricultural education. 1915. Lyon, T. L., and others. Soils; their properties and management. 1915. Smith, Thomas. The book of dry-wall gardens. White, J. J. Cranberry culture. 1912. LANGUAGE DeVitis, M. A. A Spanish grammar for beginners. 1915. Vizetelly, F. H. A dictionary of simplified spelling; based on the publications of the United States Bureau of Education and the rules of the American Philological Association and the Simplified Spelling Board; compiled from the Funk and Wagnalls New standard dictionary of the English language, by Frank H. Vizetelly. 1915. Woolley, E. C. Written English; a course of lessons in the main things to know in order to write English correctly. 1915. DOMESTIC ECONOMY Bidder, M. G., and FLORENCE BADDELEY. Domestic economy in theory and practice; a text-book for teachers and students in training. 1911. Filippini, Alexander. One hundred ways of cooking eggs. 1892-1915. Glover, E. H. "Dame Curtsey's" book of salads, sandwiches, and beverages. 1915. Symonds, Mary. Elementary embroidery. 1915. HYGIENE Curry, S. S. How to add ten years to your life and to double its satisfactions. 1915. Skarstrom, William. Gymnastic teaching. 1914. Orsi, Pietro. Gli ultimi cento anni di storia universale, 1815-1915. 1915. v. 1. 1815-1870. Orvieto, Laura. Storie della storia del mondo greche e barbare. 1911. Pedretti, G. Chauffeur di sè stesso; manuale pratico ad uso di chi guida e maneggia la propria automobile senza chauffeur. 1915. Piazza, Giuseppe. I Dardanelli; l'Oriente e la guerra europea. 1915. Pizzi, Italo. Per il 1° centenario della nascita di Giuseppe Verdi; memorie, aneddoti, considerazioni. 1913. Quintavalle, Ferruccio. Il risorgimento italiano (1814-1871). 1913. Sorani, Aldo. La guerra vista dagli scrittori inglesi; prefazione di Richard Bagot. 1915. Blanco-Fombona, Rufino. La lámpara de Aladino. 1915. Downer, C. A., and ALFREDO ELÍAS. Lecturas modernas; selected and edited with notes and vocabulary by Charles Alfred Downer and Alfredo Elías. 1914. Spanish text. Escoiquiz, Juan de. Memorias (180708); publicadas por A. Paz y Melia. 1915. Insúa, Albert, and A. H. CATÁ. El amor tardío; drama romántico en tres actos. 1915. Mac Donald, G. R. Pitman's manual of Spanish commercial correspondence. Spanish and English text. Pardo Bazan, Emilia. Al pie de la Torre Eiffel. Valle-Inclan, Ramon del. Aromas de leyenda; versos en loor de un santo ermitano. 1913. La cabeza del dragon; farsa. 1913. Zamacois, Eduardo. La ola de plomo; episodios de la guerra europea 1914–1915. 1915. Fiction Benavente, Jacinto. Vilanos. 1905. Dicenta y Benedicto, Joaquin. Mares de España. 1913. Palacio, Valdés, Armando. Tristan; ó El pesimismo. 1912. Pérez Lugín, Alejandro. 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