Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-10-14
GOitur's Gable.
MRs. PUTNAM RECEIPT Book, AND YOUNG HOUSE?
KEEPER ASSISTANT. Boston, Phillips,
Sampson & Co.

MRs. PUTNAM RECEIPT Book, AND YOUNG HOUSE?
KEEPERS ASSISTANT. Boston, Phillips,
Sampson & Co.
Several books of this kind since the time of
Mrs. Gloss have been published, sorie of them
from the expensive modes of cooking which
they prescribe rather adapted to families who
exist in the highest styles of artificial life, than
to ordinary, and plain people. Mrs. Leslie's,
Mrs. Hale's, and a few other cookery books
which we could mention are an improvement
upon these, and most excellent in their way.
because they exclude unnecessary details, and
extrayagances, which it would require a fortune
to observe, and instruct the housekeeper in the
preparation of very simple, yet elegant dishes.
Mrs. Putnam work we think IS the most
simplifed in its receipts of any which have yet
appeared. 1t teaches how to prepare elegant
dishes combining all the necessary ingredients
which have been mentioned by previous writ
ers, yet having a due regard to economy. We
hail books of this kind with peculiar pleasure,
and greet every improvement in them as SO
much contributed to the happiness of domestic
and social life. A refinement In external things
has no small influence upon morality. 1t costs
no more to present toothsome and well-havored
dishes to our friends. than a hotch-potch mess,
where the same ingredients according to their
preparation would do for a prince or a clown.
Mrs. Putnam s Receipt Book we heartily rec
ommend as the very best Of its kind.
TEXT Book OF MODERN CARPENTRY. comprising
a Treatise on B,llding-Timher with rules and
Tables for calculating its strength and the
strains to which each timber of a structure is
subjected observations on Roofs, Trusses,
Bridges, &C., and a Glossary explaining at
length the technical terms in use among car
penterS. By THOMAS W. SILLowAY, Architect
of tho new Capitol at Montpelier, Vt. IL
Illustrated by twenty Copperplates. Boston,
Crosby, Nichols & Co, III Washington st.,
1858.
We are not competent to review the merits of
this work which is on u subject with which we
are not familiar. We however present the title
page in full, which will show the design of it.
That it is by Mr.. Thomas W. SILLowAY, the
Architect of the beautiful State House, which
is now nearly complete, and which is %univer-
sally admired, will be proof p~resumptive that it
is a work worthy of being carefully examined
by all who are interested on the subject of
which it treats. As we gather from the
preface it has been prepared as a book Of refer
ence for the Master Carpenter, and as a manual
of instruction for the journeyman and appren-
tice. 1t treats the subject in a popular way,
and avoids the abstruseness of ~costlier works,
while its selections from authors are with ref
erence to immediate practical utility. An i'm
portant and valuable feature is a " Glossary of
Terms in common use among carpenters
which is very full, and has been prepared with
much care and labor. Altogether the form of
this little manual is most convenient. its
typographical execution is excellent, and we
cannot doubt that it will prove as the author
f hopes, a desirable companion to the apprentice
in his hours of study. as well as a ready assis-
I tant to the man of business.
S AGNES, a novel by the author of : Ida May"
t Boston, Phillips, Sampson & Co. For sale by
c. G.. Eastman. The reputation of the pub
' fishers of the Atlantic Monthly warrants US in
} recommending this book if we had not seen it.
. They publish no unreliable books. The read
ers of Ida May" will only need be told it is
e by the same author. The only fault we can
r see about it most readers will call no fault at
all and that is the frequent recurrence of In
q dian-English dialect, which would read much
t better if translated into good English.
Cooley FOR NOVEMBER Besides being always
e first on our Table, it gives the tone to fashions
t and all The %niceties in the ladies department.
: L. A. Cooley, Philadelphia.
e FRUIT CULTURE or, a Guide to the Cultivation
and Management of Fruit Trees, with de-
scriptions of Fruits, and a variety of useful
Miscellaneous Household Receipts fully il
r Illustrated. By Thos. Gregg, New York
s Fowler and Wells, publishers. Price, by
o mail, paper, 80 cents cloth, so cents.
+ Fruit culture has but just begun to receive
: the attention it deserves, and we gladly well
d, come this work as the matter it contains is well
calculated to aid and instruct, and consequent
| y benefit, the fruit-grower. Every person who
; has a tree, or ground enough for one to grow
on, should read it. 70 be successful in fruit
V culture, as in anything else, you must know
s how to do it; and this book gives much infor-
nation one can not well do without. The price
$ s so small that any one can afford it. There
t is no doubt but in all sections some fruits can
be made profitable if judIciously cultivated.