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brates ; " and now comes its second edition. 

 To Elliott Coues must always be given the 

 merit of leading grandly on this line by the 

 " Key to American Birds." Prof. Jordan 

 has, in this new book of over 400 pages, 

 put the amateur student in the classifica- 

 tion of the home vertebrates under a great 

 debt of gratitude. The manual is a very 

 efficient analyst of animal forms. It is tru- 

 ly multum in parvo, but perhaps a little too 

 condensed. 



Twenty-five-Cent Dinners for Families 

 of Six. By Juliet Corson, Office of the 

 New York Cooking-School, 35 East 

 Seventeenth Street, Union Square. 72 

 pages. Price, 15 cents. 



Miss Corson has published various use- 

 ful books on the subject of cookery, and, 

 among others, a little brochure entitled 

 "Fifteen-Cent Dinners for Working-Men's 

 Families." This attracted a good deal of 

 attention, and set many people to thinking 

 about the possibilities of living cheaply and 

 well, if they only knew how to do it. Hav- 

 ing thus raised the question of economical 

 diet in a practical way, Miss Corson was ap- 

 plied to by letters from numerous parties to 

 show what could be done on a little more 

 liberal scale of expense, and " Twenty-five- 

 Cent Dinners " is the result. There is a large 

 amount of valuable, well-digested informa- 

 tion in this pamphlet. Miss Corson not only 

 speaks from experience, both in cooking and 

 teaching (as she is superintendent of the New 

 York Cooking-School), but from a special 

 study of culinary economics, or how to get 

 good food in sufficient allowance at the low- 

 est cost. Her results will excite some sur- 

 prise in people of careless habits in these 

 matters, and who would be astonished to be 

 told that good cookery would give them 

 better diet than they are in the habit of get- 

 ting, at half the cost. Miss Corson begins 

 with some serviceable hints on marketing, 

 and the economical selection of articles of 

 food, and then offers various valuable sug- 

 gestions on the best methods of cooking to 

 make them go the farthest. Several chap- 

 ters follow of well - selected receipts for 

 economical dishes, and the whole is fully 

 indexed at the close. Besides her sugges- 

 tive preface, addressed " To Economical 

 Housewives," she offers at the outset the 

 daily bills-of-fare for one week, with the 



price of each dish, of each meal, of the 

 three daily meals, and the total meals of the 

 week. The dishes are wholesome, attrac- 

 tive, and by no means stinted, and their 

 very moderate cost conveys an instructive 

 lesson to lax and thriftless housekeepers. 

 Miss Corson's little work is opportune in 

 these stringent times, and its wide circulation 

 would be productive of much public benefit. 



Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of 

 Natural Sciences. (1877). Minneapolis: 

 Young & Winn print. Pp. 126. Price, 

 50 cents. 



This number of the Bulletin contains, 

 besides the annual address of the president, 

 a report on the " Mycological Flora of Min- 

 nesota," another on "Ornithology," a paper 

 on '' Tornadoes and Cyclones," and the 

 Curator's " Report." The additions to the 

 Academy's Museum were larger in 1877 

 than in any previous year, besides being 

 much more valuable. 



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