Jennings’s Code of Useful Knowledge.
1. THE FAMILY CYCLOPÆDIA: a Dictionary of Useful and Necessary Knowledge in Domestic Economy, Agriculture, Chemistry, and the Arts; including the most approved Modes of Treatment of Diseases, Accidents, and Casualties. By JAMES JENNINGS, Esq. In one large vol. 8vo. price 1l. 7s. in boards.
This very useful work contains upward of fourteen hundred closely printed pages, comprising as much matter as is frequently contained in six ordinary-sized volumes. The following are the opinions of the Reviewers on its merits:—
“As a book of daily reference, the Family Cyclopædia is really invaluable: it forms a portable Library of Useful Knowledge, of easy reference, and contains a great variety of information not to be found in other works of similar pretensions, and of greater magnitude.”
“It contains a large mass of information on subjects connected with the Domestic Economy of Life. In matters of Science and the Arts, the selections are all from sources of the best authority, and treated in a clear and familiar manner. As a book of daily reference in the common concerns of life, its great practical utility will, no doubt, ensure it a ready introduction, and a favourable reception in every intelligent family.”
“The able manner in which this work is executed, affords satisfactory evidence that the editor is thoroughly acquainted with the subject. It is a valuable multum in parvo.”
Moubray on Poultry, Pigs, and Cows.
2. A PRACTICAL TREATISE on BREEDING, REARING, and FATTENING all kinds of DOMESTIC POULTRY, PIGEONS, and RABBITS; also, on Breeding, Feeding, and Managing Swine, Milch Cows, and Bees. By BONINGTON MOUBRAY, Esq. Sixth Edition, enlarged by a Treatise on Brewing, on making Cider, Butter, and Cheese: adapted to the Use of Private Families. Price 7s. 6d. cloth boards.
“This is unquestionably the most practical Work on the subject in our Language, and the Information is conveyed in plain and intelligible Terms. The convenience of a small Poultry Yard—two or three Pigs, with a breeding Sow, and a Cow for Cream, Milk, Butter, and Cheese—in an English Country House, appears indispensable; and to point out how these may be obtained, at a Reasonable Expense, seems to have been Mr. Moubray’s object. He is evidently a good practical Farmer, thoroughly conversant with Rural Economy in all its branches; his Book is written in a light, lively, Kitchener style, and, like the works of that celebrated Gastronome, conveys, at least, as much amusement as information. Were any testimony wanted, as to its practical utility, it would be found in the declaration of an eminent Rural Economist, Sir John Sinclair, who pronounces it ‘the best work hitherto printed’ on the subject of which it treats.”—Farmer’s Journal.