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A is Mode Cookery. By Mrs. De Salle. (Longmans and

Co. 5s.) —Mrs.. De Salle, having given to the world instructions how to cook this and that article d is mode, now takes up the whole subject of cookery from the same point of view. This collection of "Up-to-Date Receipts," illustrated as it is by brilliantly coloured illustrations, does indeed give us the culinary art in excelsis. Of course, this kind of cookery cannot be described as cheap; at the same time, it may well claim to help the house- keeper to get as good value for her money as it is entitled to fetch. The art of preparing food is one on which the last word will never be said. There are none, we venture to affirm, who may not learn much from this volume.