Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book

which sometimes becomes very refractory. The best regulated families are sometimes taken a little by surprise by the untimely stepping in of a friend to dinner--to such, Miss Leslie is the friend indeed, ready as her book is with instructions for the hasty production of various substitutes for meals requiring timely and elaborate preparation." _From the Philadelphia Daily News._ "To the housekeeper, the name of Miss Leslie is a guaranty that what comes from her hand is not only orthodox, but good; and to the young wife about to enter upon the untried scenes of catering for a family, _Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book_ may be termed a blessing. It presents receipts, (and practical ones too,) for preparing and cooking all kinds of soups, fish, oysters, meats, game, cakes, pastry, and indeed everything which enters into the economy of housekeeping. Their recommendations are that they are all practical, and the novice of the culinary art may enter upon her important duties with '_Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book_' by her side, with perfect confidence that the 'soup' will not be spoiled, and that the dinner will be what is designed. How many disappointments could be avoided, how many domestic difficulties prevented, and how many husbands made happy, instead of miserable, by the use of this '_vade mecum_,' we shall not pretend to say; but as we have a sincere regard for every lady who reads the _News_, our advice to them all is, by all means to buy _Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book_. Mr. Peterson has done admirably in getting up this work: it is handsomely and substantially bound in cloth, gilt, and does credit to his business skill; the low price at which the work is sold, when we take the size of it into consideration, One Dollar and Twenty-five cents only, will doubtless give it an immense sale." _From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier._ "With such a book as _Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book_, published by Mr. Peterson, it is inconceivable what a vast extent of palate is destined to be astonished, and what a gastronomic multitude is to be