We have received a second volume of Casselts Household Guide
(Cas- sell and Co.), a book which seems to answer satisfactorily even to its very wide descriptive title of " A. Complete Eneyclopailia of Domestic and Social Economy" and "Guide to Every Department of Practical Life.' We have dipped into it and examined some of such articles as an outsider might be expected to understand—en cooking, for instance, on which every man has an opinion—and found the instruction to all appearance sound and sensible. A good index—an useful, nay, am indispensable adjunct which volumes of this kind are often without— makes all this store of knowledge easily available. We cannot do better than give a specimen of this index, to show what a reader may expect to find :—"Endive, cultivation of, &c.; engraving ; envelope-holder, an. upright for ; epilepsy, remarks, symptoms, &c.; erysipelas, remarks,. &c.; erythema, remarks, &c. ; Everton toffee ; extract of meat ; eye, to
a speck from." It is the sort of book, in fact, that a practical friend would give to a young couple starting in life, jest as one would give a cyclopasdia to a man about to voyage round the world. We have
also received the sixth and completing volume of a new edition of Cassell's Popular Educator.
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