BABY: The Mothers' Magazine. A Guide to the Health, Dress, Food, Education and the General Management of Children Founded by Mrs. Ada S. Ballin in 1887. Published at 4d. monthly. Yearly, post free, 5/ BABY Yearly Volumes, handsomely bound in cloth and carefully indexed, 6/- each. Cases for Binding Twelve Monthly Numbers, 2/ THE KINDERGARTEN SYSTEM EXPLAINED By the late Mrs. ADA S. BALLIN, and Miss ELINOR A. WELLDON (Government Inspectress of Schools in the Transvaal; formerly Head Mistress of the Kindergarten Training Department of the Ladies' College, Cheltenham). Revised and brought down to present-day methods by Miss BESSIE H. CLIFT, Head Mistress under the L.C.C. Fcap. 4to, cloth, fully illustrated. Third Edition. 3/6 The work is clearly expressed and copiously illustrated, and constitutes an invaluable help to teachers, also enabling parents themselves to undertake the home teaching of their children. I. THE MOTHERS' GUIDE SERIES By Mrs. ADA S. 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