26 NOVEMBER 1864, Page 24

The English and Australian Cookery Book. By an Australian Aristo-

logist. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—The writer of this cookery book has fallen into an error very common with young authors, and sacrificed his book to his literary ambition. A book like Mr. Walker's " Original" is one thing, like Miss Acton's "Cookery Book" another. A compromise between the two is of necessity a failure. The recipes bore the general reader, and the jokes bewilder the cooks, who while they are gaping over his anecdotes will lose "the moment of projection," or forget to baste the meat. The chapters on dressing kangaroo and on the Australian fishes are curious, and in Australia, we doubt not, will be very useful.