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

THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCH

POLE. A Suffolk Girl. By the Rev. R. Cobb°ld.
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-

LNG ELEGANCE WITH ECONOMY.

The preface of this work informs us that it is an
adapted translation of "La Cuisiniere de la Campagne
et de la Ville," a celebrated French cookery book which
has reached its thirtieth edition, and of which upwards
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 i . s 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.
alelttbgive.s us also directions for the management of the
IT. e tht-eeFts,instructions for carving ; for making liqueurs, pre-
serves,character we arreoveaua
and thirty-six different modes of dressing eggs, in ome-
lettes, hints on the management of wines ;
thighs, :
to the English readerecipe glwlh,itltlo,h
oshow o
ciotsokt hsonraoiulsghalnydFfircroigcsh.
no doubt, be highly acceptable
ing water, and boiln fricassee de pullet. Put them into boil-
them into,
cold water them
slightly; take them out, throw
saucepan with musluloand drain them ; then put them into a
of garlic, and a piece orta, a bunch of parsley, chives, a clove
on the fire, and add a butter;. pass them two* or three turns
wine, a little bouillon good pinch of flour, a glass of white
quarter of an hour ; then to and Pepper; let them stew a
the liquor, and reduce it • take out the frogs' thighs • strain
eggs, a small pinch of parkey thickening of the yolks of
thicken without boiling.” , chopped
very finely, and let it
gSia
following
Frogs'
c ~d.t hs
iyrups

s a scredible,
RAILWAY RESULTs.-17r,
Dwarris.
If we may regard the author's aYsse'ritlor*n Fortunatus
this little pamphlet is actually issued by himself as the
skeleton of what he is fascetiously pleased to
attempt to restore the Old English comedy." al l There in
an
a pleasant story of a cobbler in ancient times, who go
himself into such serious difficulties by intermeddlingt
with matters entirely beyond the capacities of his callin
that it has grown into a proverb familiar to every
schoolboy. Sir Fortunatus Dwarris will, or rather must,
apply the ne sutor ultra crepidam moral to himself, or
he will become involved in a dilemma from which extri
cation is all but impossible. Does he imagine for a ino •
ment that the mere lacquer of a spurious w it can be tole-
rated by a nation so fastidious in its ideas ofdramatic art as
England ? Does he really plume himself upon the
notion that such an absurdity as Fence will draw
.;:lcoreosw ded houses," when Afali'olio is unattractive ?
an elegant
sock he seriously suppose that an enthusiasm for the
and buskin
refined can be revived by such a
accumulation
the scenes, wii
molation of slang, and by such
intermixture (f vulgarity and nonsense as
a new lyre for hiraspelf o,
which,ll he has favoured us, in his " dra-
matic sketch."
pwiictkhe d
au p the
contemptuouss haAvinigs. These are received
we conjecture, has been making
and Sir Fortunatus Dwarris ha.
shavings are dissipated for ever, al'n'd forgotten. The in-
tentionlsver,good that his exceeding
by the public
of our playwright
and the precious
failure must, however, be forgiven.lf he cannot be
commended, let him at least 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 pronunciation of words, but it gives
every technical phrase employed in all the sciences, the
fine arts, and the 'camel professions. The eight parts
which have already appeared, and the publication of
wigela we IMO watched with interest from the com-

mencewent, promise a book without any parallel. Un-
doubtedly minor errors have insinuated them-
selves, in the midst of so much elaboration, but
these are surely excusable and can be readily
corrected in a supplementary part. Had this compila-
tion. appeared many years back it would have
been regarded as a wonderful literary achievement.
Intrinsically, it is so still, though we have become so
habituated to the .recurrence of marvels, that the ap-
pearance of a hippogriff would scarcely excite any asto-
nishment among the populace. We are sucked at the rate
of sixty miles an hour over the surface of the earth ;
our clodpoles are become experimental chemists ; we talk
to each other through wires when separated by many
leagues ; and have grown familiar with various other
equally marvellous proceedings. Hence we are but
rarely seduced into anything like a display of astonish-
ment. The present work is worthy of the present age ;
it betrays the profound research and the continual in-
dustry of its editor.

GILBERT'S MODERN ATLAS of the WORLD,

Four Parts.

Another of those cheap and useful publications which
tend so much to facilitate the enlightenment of the
people. By issuing periodicals of this character, Mr.
Gilbert evinces his anxiety to follow in the footsteps
of the late Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, and in acting thus, he shows his appreciation
of the objects of that admirable institution. The maps
are clearly printed, and the engravings pencilled with
extreme neatness ; even the recent discoveries of Capt.
Ross, in the neighbourhood of the South Pole, are in-
cluded ; and the work altogether is as complete as our
present knowledge of the globe will permit. When
completed, it will form an admirable additionato any and
every library.