30 MAY 1874, Page 23

Facts and Hints for Every-Day Life: a Book for the

Household. (Cassell and Co.)—We may say in commendation of this little volume that we have kept it by us for two or three months, and made actual reference to it for various matters which happened to occur—for such a thing, for instance, as the English equivalent for the French gramme and Ware—and that every such reference has been successful in its object. The chief subject of the articles is domestic economy of one kind or another,—how to cook various articles of food, how to treat various ailments, being, perhaps, the most important heads of informa- tion. It seems an admirably careful and complete manual.