Food and Home Cookery, by Catherine M. Backton (Longman), contains
the course of instruction followed in the Board Schools at Leeds ; and so excellent is it, that if every household in the kingdom possessed the book, and the presiding genius of every kitchen fol- lowed, not only its principles, but most of its details, so much the better would it be for the home. Mrs. Buckton not only tells us all the things we ought to know on her special subjects, but tells them in a way which makes them easy to remember and to carry out. There is one little correction we should like to make. In the most capitally arranged outfit for a girl, appended to the useful remarks on suitable dress, there is only one of each article, and as the cost is estimated, when the indispensable three of some of them have to be bought, there would be a discrepancy between estimate and outlay.
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