Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks: Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food

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. =Hand-book of Household Science=. By Professor E. L. Youmans. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. This work has been prepared to meet a long-acknowledged want in our homes and schools. There is a strong and growing demand for that kind of knowledge which can be made available in the daily operations of familiar life. Various books have been prepared which cross the field of domestic science at different points, but this is the first work that traverses and