The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-15 00:00:00

ME HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCH

POLE. A Suffolk Girl. By the Rev. R. Cobbold.
This is a work of rather extraordinary character,
possessing all the interest of fiction, and the moral
power of truth. The author is one well acquainted
with the facts of the case, being a member of the family
in which the heroine resided. He has given a full and
particular account of her eventful career, and the volume
is ornamented with numerous illustrations. The story
of Margaret and the smuggler, Will Land—her (for a
woman) most unusual crime of horse-stealing, in order
to gain means to join her lover—her capture—her trial
—her wonderful escape from prison, have all the air of
a romance. While the moral reflections occasioned by
her adventures will not be without benefit to the reader.

FRENCH_DOMESTIC COOKERY, COMBIN-

ING ELEGANCE WITH ECONOMY.

The preface of this work informs us that it is an
adapted translation of "La Cuisiniare de la Campagne
et de la Ville," a celebrated French cookery book which
has reached its thirtieth edition, and of which upwardi
of 80,000 copies have been sold ! After this, recom-
mendation appears needless ; a work approved at the
high court of the culinary art must be gladly welcomed
by its English votaries. The editor appears anxious to
correct the prevalent notion that French cookery is ex-
pensive ; he assures us that the contrary is the fact, and
we are inclined to believe him. This little volume will
form an acceptable addition to the numerous stock of
cookery books already extant. It contains many illus-
trations, and, what is far better, twelve hundred receipts.
It gives us also directions for the management of the
table, instructions for carving ; for making liqueurs, pre-
serves, and syrups ; hints on the management of s inns ;
and thirty-six different modes of dressing eggs, in ome-
lettes, &c. Above all, to show its thoroughly French
character, we are taught how to cook snails and frogs.
The following recipe will, no doubt, be highly acceptable
to the English reader :
"Frogs' thighs, en fricassee de poulet. Put them into boil-
ing water, and boil them slightly; take them out, throw
them into cold water, and drain them ; then put them into a
saucepan with mushrooms, a bunch of parsley, chives, a clove
of garlic, and a piece of butter; pass them two or three turns
on the fire, and add a good pinch of flour, a glass of white
wine, a little bouillon, salt and pepper; let them stew a
quarter of an hour ; then take out the frogs' thighs ; strain
the liquor, and reduce it; add a thickening of the yolks of
eggs, a small pinch of parsley, chopped very finely, and let it
thicken without boiling."

RAILWAY RESULTS. By Sir Fortunatus
Dwarris.

If we may regard the author's assertions as credible,
pamphlet is actually issued by himself as the
skeletonthislittle
of what he is fascetiously pleased to call "an
attempt to restore the Old English comedy." There is
a pleasant story of a cobbler in ancient times, who got
himself into such serious difficulties by intermeddling
with matters entirely beyond the capacities of his calling
that it has grown into a proverb familiar to every
chet.will.
schoolboy. Sir Fortunatus Dwarris will, or rather must,
apply the ne sutor ultra crepidani moral to himself, or
tole-
rated become involved in a dilemma from which extri-
aion is all but impossible. Does he imagine for a mo-
ment
EnglandLhya
at?
nationthe
so
oe
fastidiouslacq uerofi an
ispuriousideas it can be
"crowded houses 'll of dramatic art as
Does he really plume himself upon the
notion that such
Does he seriously'absurdity as Fence will draw
sock and buski when .211a/volio is unattractive ?
suppose that an enthusiasm for the
c intermixtureum ul a
ticacrif be revived by such a
an refined
elegant an of slang, and h I
y suc 1
the scenes, with which he hasvulgarity and nonsense as
dra-
matic sketch." Apollo,
we
eored us, in his "
a.new lyre for himself, and Fortunatussinrjecture, has been making
relic d up the shavings. These are
. Dwarris has
with. a contemptuous "
phew
and,,,received by the public
shavings are dissipated for aver, and. the precious
forgotten. The in-
tention of our playwright is so good that his exceeding
failure must, however, be forgiven IQ cannot be
commended, let him at !east be tolerated..

GILBERT'S NEW DICTIONARY OF THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Parts I. to VIII.
This work is really a most extraordinary undertaking
—it is something between an encyclopaedia and a dic-
tionary, without the superfluous bulk of the one or the
narrowness of the other. Not only does it give the
etymology and the piouunciation of words, but it gives
every technical phrase employed in all the sciences, the
fine arts, and the learned professions. The eight parts
which have already appeared, and the publication of
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