Contents: I. Introductory; II. Bread, Tea, and Coffee; III. Meats, soups, and Fish; IV. Vegetables, Cereals, and Salads; V. Puddings and Pies; VI. Pickles; VII. Cake, Custard, and Candy; VIII. Fruit; IX. Miscellaneous Hints; X. Talks upon Various Subjects.
All Around the House; or, How to make Homes happy. By Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
This volume, as its title implies, consists of papers upon topics concerning the ordering and well-being of the household. It contains, in addition to a large number of receipts for cooking, and rules for marketing, numerous hints for the management of servants and children, directions as to furnishing, repairing, cleansing, etc., and information on all the innumerable things on which housekeepers need information, while, in addition to its usefulness as a guide to practical knowledge and economical methods, it is eminently interesting and suggestive, in its various essays on home topics, to every one concerned in the welfare and happiness of the household.
Hand-book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks. Containing the whole Science and Art of preparing Human Food. By P. BLOT. 12mo, cloth, $1.75.
Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea; viewed Classically, Poetically, and Practically. A new edition. Square 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
Half-Tints: Table d'Hôte and Drawing-room. 12mo, cloth, 75 cents.
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. Youmans. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
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.
Hand-book of Dining; or, Corpulency and Leanness Scientifically Considered. By Brillat Savarin. Translated by L. F. Simpson. 12mo, $1.00.
Social Etiquette of New York. New and enlarged edition. Containing two additional chapters—"Extended Visits," and "Customs and Costumes at Theatres, Concerts, and Operas"—with the chapter on "Etiquette of Weddings" rewritten in accordance with the latest fashionable usage. 18mo, cloth, gilt, $1.00.