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the understanding of which was so necessary to his comfort and happiness. 

 We mention not Messrs. Ude, Careme, Jarrin, and twenty other foreigners, 

 who had introduced their foreign kickshaws into our national cookery; for 

 assuredly our own receipt books can furnish novelty and luxury enough to 

 render a resort to foreign kitchens quite unnecessary. Dear good, though 

 unknown, Mrs. Rundell, who hast survived fifty-nine editions, and sent forth 

 more than one hundred and fifty thousand copies of thy invaluable receipts, 

 what thanks does the community of English cooks owe to theei well may'st 

 thou say, Exegi monumentum cere perennius. 



The book before us is but an humble imitation of its great prototype ; but 

 still we think it not unworthy of a favourable notice, inasmuch as its com- 

 piler has undoubtedly availed himself of much information of later date than 

 Mrs. Rundell. We have submitted the book to the inspection of a council of 

 matrons, and we are happy to say that they return a verdict for the defendant. 

 So much for the cookery, the attempts at humour are generally unsuccessful, 

 and it would have been well if wit had not been attempted. The dogrel verses 

 yclept poetry, either selected or original, that are scattered up and down the 

 book are really execrable, and might have been omitted with much advantage, 



Herald of Peace. No. I. VI. 8vo. Ward. 



WE have much pleasure in noticing the work of a very useful Christian society. 

 The seven years' war which raged from 1756 to 1763 originated about 

 some lands in the wilderness of North America, and has often been called " a 

 strife about so many acres of snow." Hostilities soon spread over great part 

 of Europe, and in some of the districts of Germany the work of destruction 

 was so complete that many opulent families, having lost every thing, were 

 compelled to subsist themselves by eating grass. The Grand Seignior invited 

 all the European ministers at his court to attend a conference, and after tell- 

 ing them of the abhorrence he felt at the bloody wars then raging between so 

 many Christian nations, offered his mediation for effecting a general peace. 

 This offer was, however, rejected, and hostilities were continued till poverty 

 brought peace. The slaughter of the allies and opponents in this dreadful con- 

 test was little less than 800,000 men ! 



This war is said to have been the most fortunate that ever England was en- 

 gaged in. One hundred ships of war were destroyed or taken from the enemy, 

 and twelve millions sterling acquired in prize money. But these successes cost 

 the nation upwards of one hundred and eleven millions sterling, and 250,000 

 human lives ! 



It was during this war, on one of the public fast days appointed by autho- 

 rity to pray for victory, that a clergyman delivered the following remarkable 

 address to his congregation., which has probably been preserved among the 

 papers of one of his hearers. 



"When the workings of bad passions are swelled to their height by mutual 

 animosity and opposition, war ensues. War is a state in which our feelings 

 and our duties suffer a total and strange inversion, a state in which it becomes 

 our business to hurt and annoy our neighbour by every possible means. 

 Instead of cultivating, to destroy instead of building, to pull down instead 

 of peopling, to depopulate, a state in which we drink the tears and feed 

 upon the miseries of our fellow-creatures. Such a state, therefore, requires the 

 extremest necessity to justify it ; it ought not to be the common and usual 

 state of society. As both parties cannot be right, there is always an equal 

 chance at least of either of them being in the wrong ; but as both parties may 

 be to blame, and most commonly are, the chance is very great indeed against 

 its being entered into from an adequate cause ; yet war may be said to be with 

 regard to nations the sin which most easily besets them. We, my friends, in 

 common with other nations, have much guilt to repent of from this cause, and 

 it ought to make a large part of our humiliation on this day. When we carry 



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