Household hints

One volume, 12mo. Cloth. - - - Price, $1.50. *^ This volume consists of the reprint of those social -chats with young housekeepers in which Mrs. Beecher so excels, together with a large number of receipts. The volume is as sensible and practical within as it is neat and attractive without." — New York Examiner and Chronicle, ** The book is an encyclopaedia of household information which no woman can read without benefit. It can not fail to be a help to many untaught housekeepers, while the more experienced may find suggestions of value. The volume would be a blessing if it could go into every household and be attentively read.'* — Chicago Inter-Ocean, '*She has not lived in vain who has gathered together so much of worldly wisdom, and bequeathed it in such attractive form to those who come after her, treading the dangerous quicksands that beset domestic life in this nervous and electrical age." — San Francisco Evening Post, " Every house which has Mrs. Beecher's book will be the happier for it." — Erie (Pa.) Sunday Morning Gazette. **The book is counselor and cook combined, and a treasure in any house." — Toledo Sunday Journal. "No book has appeared among the many issued for the household which combines so many excellences for the promotion of domestic wellbeing." — New York Baptist Weekly. " No housekeeper can read the book without advantage." — Albany Jour. " This is an invaluable book ; its pages contain a liberal education in household matters." — Nashville Daily American. D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street, New York. LESSONS IN COOKERY: Hand-book of the National Training-School for Cookery, South Kensington, London, To which is added the Principles of Diet in Health and Disease, by Thomas K, Chambers, M. D, Edited by Eliza A. Yoiimans. In one vol., 12mo, 882 pages, bound in cloth. Price, $1.50. This is an important work for such American housekeepers as are interested in the principles of good cookery ; but it differs so much from ordinary cook-books that, to prevent misunderstanding, it is needful to call attention to its special features. Emanating from a school, and that school a workiog-kitchen, the manual is beyond comparison the most thoroughly practical cook-book for general use that has ever been made. The novelty and merit of the work are in the method by which it secures successful practice. Its lessons, the plainest, easiest, and fullest, anywhere to be found, have grown out of a long and painstaking experience in finding out the best plan of teaching beginners and ignorant persons how to cook well. They were perfected through the stupidities, blunders, mistakes, questionings, and difficulties of hundreds of pupils, of all ages, grades, and capacities, under the careful direction of intelligent, practical teachers. A cook-book's highest test is. Does it actually teach the art of cookery, or will it make good practical cooks ? Thus judged, this volume is without a rival. It is not a mere compilation, nor the work of any one person. The managers of the training-school found that there was no cook-book suitable for their purposes, and that they must make one. The proof of its success is that, by following its simple directions, many hundred women have become qualified to fill responsible situations as cooks, or to instruct their daughters or servants in cookery, or to go out and establish other cooking-schools themselves. The volume covers sufficient ground for a liberal and varied diet. It contains upward of two hundred lessons in the preparation of a wide range of dishes — soups, fish, meats, poultry, game^ vegetables, entries, souffles, puddings, jellies, creams, rolls, biscuit, bread, and a variety of suitable dishes for the sick. The wants of well-to-do families as well as those of more moderate means arc thus amply provided for. D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers,