BOOKS BY ALDOUS HUXLEY
| 1916 | The Burning Wheel. Published in England only. |
| 1918 | The Defeat of Youth. Published in England only. |
| 1920 | Limbo |
| 1920 | Leda |
| 1921 | Crome Yellow |
| 1922 | Mortal Coils |
| 1923 | On the Margin |
| 1923 | Antic Hay |
| 1924 | Young Archimedes and Other Sketches |
| In England: Little Mexican and Other Stories. |
SOURCES ON ALDOUS HUXLEY
In addition to the sources referred to in the text of the chapter or in footnotes, the reader should consult the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature for the years since 1920.
7. In Every Home: A Chapter for Women
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In addressing this chapter to you, I do what I can to notify other men that they may find it uninteresting. Indeed, as you and I know, if all the truth were told they would find it, many of them, most unpalatable reading. There are things we need not go into, such as the indubitable fact that the success of the home depends solely upon the woman. A man may contribute to it, but he cannot make it; and whatever his behavior, if the woman is steadfast, he cannot absolutely wreck it. The home is a form of government and a form of human society. We are familiar with the larger forms of government men have tried, the best of them only partly successful. But the home has been a complete success, times innumerable. Men may call it a benevolent despotism, but the fact remains. It is perhaps significant that the government of the home is not conducted by the use of the Australian or the Massachusetts ballot. Women have accepted the vote and will use it; but their grasp of certain essentials of society is more clear than men’s, and if the ballot cannot safeguard the home, and the health and welfare and opportunity of children, then government will have to be transformed into something that will.
But this is understood; my purpose is simply to tell of a few books which are, in type, indispensable to the homemaker. The types are really only two: the cook book and the handbook of motherhood. It so happens that there is one volume of each type so complete, so thoroughly tested, so practically perfect that it stands alone on an eminence above all others of its sort—and the best of the others make no pretensions to do more than add wings, columns, buttresses, and chapels to the main edifice. If I could talk about The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book and The Care and Feeding of Children in the same breath, I should do so. I can, anyway, talk about them in the same chapter!
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, by Fannie Merritt Farmer, first appeared in 1896 and was most recently revised last year. It has over 800 pages and still is a volume of little more than ordinary size, no thicker than a rather long novel. The 122 illustrations are so treated as to be intelligible—and if you have ever tried photographing food, you will appreciate what this means. The pictures have been used to show what the words of the text could not make so clear; one sees at a glance the differences between kidney lamb chops, rib chops and French chops, or the precise effect of capon in aspic, rather elaborately garnished with cooked yolks and whites of eggs cut in fancy shapes, pistachio nuts, and truffles.