The Week-End Book

by Francis Meynell (Editor), Vera Mendel

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First published in 1924, this volume offers essential advice on making the most of one's precious leisure time--from how to forecast the weather to making a campfire or paper cups and suggestions for games to play in the country.

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Pretty much what I expected and yet utterly charming and random. I liked the pocket summary of astronomy circa 1930s and now I know the difference between flotsam and jetsom.

amyem58 | Jul 15, 2014 |

Except for the introductory essay by Julian Fellowes, this book is a complete waste of time, money, and space. I'd give it negative stars if the system allowed it. (

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jennieg | Sep 21, 2011 |

It's not much of a read, but it's a fun book just to have. In fact, it seems to encourage my family to spend more weekends having fun than working. (

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theyarnstashattacked | Nov 21, 2010 |

19th ed. Wonderful color chapter illustrations. This is the new edition, 1st printing. 1st pub. 1924, 332p was not illustrated.18 previous printings from the 1st ed. (

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kitchengardenbooks | May 2, 2009 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Meynell, Francis	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Mendel, Vera	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Norwich, John Julius	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Week-end Book in Two Volumes, Volume 1 by Francis Meynell

The Week-end Book in Two Volumes, Volume 2 by Francis Meynell

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[According to the Preface, the editors meant] to compile a book of clues to good life and reading for week-end pairs and parties.... we have saved [readers] trouble by printing the titles, first lines and authors only, of those great poems which their pastors and masters in infancy and their poetic enthusiasms in adolescence have made sufficiently, if not excessively, familiar. These may be transcribed on the blank pages at the end of the book, or recited or banished from memory, according to individual taste and ability.... It is designed to supplement and balance to Oxford Book of English Verse (carried in the opposite pocket).

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According to the Preface, the editors meant "to compile a book of clues to good life and reading for week-end pairs and parties". The end papers are a draughts board and a Nine Men's Morris board. The first section is 111 pages of "Great Poems"; then 18 pages of "Hate Poems", 11 of "State Poems", 8 of Epigrams, 17 of poems about animals, 74 of songs with the musical notation. Next come 27 pages of suggestions of games to play, 13 of instructions for preparing food and drink and eight pages of First Aid. Then we have a "List of Great Poems contained in many memories and most anthologies and therefore omitted from this book": 34 such poems are listed, including Omar Khayyam ... E. Fitzgerald "(Selections according to taste)" and The Shropshire Lad ... A. E. Housman.* "(In general) (*Mr. Housman does not allow his poems to appear in anthologies.") After Acknowledgement [singular, though they take two pages], Index of Poems and Index of Songs we have THE MANUSCRIPT PAGES, blank except for the headings: 16 headed POEMS; 8 headed SONGS, each with ledger lines; seven headed GAMES, RECIPES, AND PRESCRIPTIONS; finaly one headed FAVOURITE INNS.

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