LITERARY NOTICES. 



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may be prepared by a cook of ordinary in- 

 telligence and even limited experience — 

 probably a pretty large claim. Particular 

 attention seems to have been given to the 

 preparation of soups, fish, and entrees^ the 

 reason assigned being that these branches 

 of culinary art are too generally neglected 

 in English cookery-books. The staple of the 

 volume is, of course, its recipes, of which 

 there are over two thousand, the several re- 

 cipes used for the preparation of each din- 

 ner following immediately the bill of fare. 

 In the index at the end of the volume every 

 recipe is named, together with the number 

 of the bill of fare to which it belongs. 



The use of such a work where cookery 

 is carried ou in a somewhat ambitious and 

 systematic way, and with some reference to 

 its artistic refinements, is obvious enough, 

 but it might undoubtedly prove helpful 

 where the culinary processes are compara- 

 tively plain and simple. Perhaps it would 

 be invidious to rank any one defect in ordi- 

 nary cookery as worse than another, where 

 they are all sufficiently conspicuous; but 

 one of its most common defects is its dis- 

 tressing monotony, a few dishes being re- 

 peated over and over, with hardly an at- 

 tempt at variation, while " canned prod- 

 ucts " enable the housekeeper to be exempt 

 from the resources of the seasons, and to 

 maintain the dreary monotony of dishes all 

 the year round. Much of this is due to in- 

 difference and carelessness on the part of 

 those who have kitchen operations in charge, 

 and there are often dolorous complaints of 

 the narrowness and poverty of the cuisine^ 

 when the real difficulty is that the manager 

 will not give sufficient thought to it. Such 

 a cyclopaedia of culinary variations as the 

 present ought certainly to give relief in this 

 respect, and, if it can not be fully carried 

 out, it offers abundant suggestions from 

 which a varied and attractive dietary can be 

 realized. 



A Contribution to the Geology of the 

 Lead and Zinc Mining District of Cher- 

 . OKEE County, Kansas. By Erasmus 

 Haworth. Oskaloosa, Iowa. Pp. 47. 

 A CAREFUL special study of a particular 

 ore-bearing district of limited extent, pre- 

 pared as a thesis in connection with an ap- 

 plication for the degree of Master of Sci- 

 ence from the Kansas State University. 



Report on the Cotton Production of the 

 State of Georgia. By R. H. Loughridge, 

 Ph. D., of Berkeley, California. Pp. 184, 

 with Maps. 



With the special report Dr. Loughridge 

 gives a description of the general agricult- 

 ural features of the State. He has been 

 assisted in both parts of the work by A. R. 

 McCutchen, for Northwest Georgia. Geor- 

 gia ranks first among the States in the acre- 

 age (2,61 7,138) devoted to the cotton-crop, 

 and second — standing next after Mississip- 

 pi — in the number of bales produced. Cot- 

 ton is the chief crop of the State, and oc- 

 cupies thirty-four per cent of the land under 

 cultivation, and 44-4 acres per square mile 

 of all the land of the State. The average 

 yield is one third of a bale per acre. The 

 cost of production, exclusive of commis- 

 sions, freights, etc., is about eight cents a 

 pound. The subject of an "intensive " sys- 

 tem of culture has lately attracted much no- 

 tice, and some enormous yields have been 

 realized. The report is full of information 

 bearing upon every agricultural aspect of the 

 Slate and of its several counties. 



VThirlvtinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes. 

 By William Morris Davis. Boston : 

 Lee & Shepard. Pp. 90. Price, 50 

 cents. 



This is a condensed meteorological study 

 proposing a theory of storms, which formed 

 the basis of a course of lectures by the 

 author at the Lowell Institute in Boston 

 in 1883. It was first published in several 

 numbers of " Science," and is now reprinted 

 with slight alterations in more convenient 

 form. It will be a welcome addition to our 

 slender resources in this field of scientific 

 literature. 



Massachusetts State Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. Bulletins Nos. 7, 8, 

 and 9. Pp. 12 each. 



Bulletin No. 7, March, 1884, contains 

 " Observations in regard to Insects injurious 

 to the Apple," and " Experiments with Spe- 

 cial Fertilizers in Fruit-Culture " ; No. 8, 

 April, " Fodder and Fodder Analyses, and 

 " Valuation " and " Analyses " of Fertiliz- 

 ers ; No. 9, May, " Notes upon Insects in- 

 jurious to Farm and Garden Crops," and 

 " Analyses of Fodder and Fertilizers." 



