Enquire Within upon Everything

A storm may be on its way: the leech climbs its bottle, the moon grows pale, and two currents of clouds cross the sky. If the signs are still uncertain, Enquire Within has one sure precaution: take an umbrella.

Robert Kemp Philp’s 1856 household guide turns the Victorian home into a place of practical puzzles, from reading the weather to discovering what a name means. Its pages offer advice for the everyday uncertainties that can unsettle a household: Will rain spoil the outing? What does a name promise? And what useful knowledge might be needed next? Part reference book, part companion for domestic life, it gathers answers in a wonderfully varied store of observations and instructions. But with omens in the clouds and a leech installed as a barometer, which forecast will you trust?

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