ADVERTISEMENTS. 
LESSONS IN COOKERY: 
Hand-book of the National 7'raining-School for Cookery, South Ken¬ 
sington, London . To which is added the Prmciples of Diet in 
Health and Disease , by Thomas K . Chambers , M. D. 
Edited by Eliza A . Youmans . 
In one vol., 12mo, 382 pages, bound in eloth. Price, $1.50. 
This is an important work for such American housekeepers as are in¬ 
terested in the principles of good cookery; but it differs so much from 
ordinary cook-books that, to prevent misunderstanding, it is needful to call 
attention to its special features. Emanating from a school, and that school 
a working-kitchen, the manual is beyond comparison the most thoroughly 
practical cook-book for general use that has ever been made. 
The novelty and merit of the work are in the method by which it secures 
successful practice. Its lessons, the plainest, easiest, and fullest, anywhere 
to be found, have-grown out of a long and painstaking experience in find¬ 
ing out the best plan of teaching beginners and ignorant persons how to 
cook well. They were perfected through the stupidities, blunders, mistakes, 
questionings, and difficulties of hundreds of pupils, of all ages, grades, and 
capacities, under the careful direction of intelligent, practical teachers. 
A cook-book’s highest test is, Does it actually teach the art of cookery, 
or will it make good practical cooks ? Thus judged, this volume is without 
a rival. It is not a mere compilation, nor the work of any one person. 
The managers of the training-school found that there was no cook-book 
suitable for their purposes, and that they must make one. The proof of its 
success is that, by following its simple directions, many hundred women 
have become qualified to fill responsible situations as cooks, or to instruct 
their daughters or servants in cookery, or to go out and establish other 
cooking-schools themselves. 
The volume covers sufficient ground for a liberal and varied diet. It 
contains upward of two hundred lessons in the preparation of a wide range 
of dishes—soups, fish, meats, poultry, game, vegetables, entrees, souffles, 
puddings, jellies, creams, rolls, biscuit, bread, and a variety of suitable 
dishes for the sick. The wants of well-to-do families as well as those of 
more moderate means are thus amply provided for. 
D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 
1, 3, & 5 Bond Street, New York. 
