31 JANUARY 1891, Page 11

Practical Household Cooken, By E. Duret. (11Warne and Co.) ,

—This gives more than a thousand recipes, besides a great num- ber of useful hints and directions. We observe that Mr. Duret asserts emphatically that New Zealand mutton and Australian beef are as good as English meat. As he was for a time manager of a great London restaurant, his opinion is worth having.