The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-20

TO follow, In this, the example of an aged reprobate
whom clever Mrs. Boswell proclaimed to be, in her
opinion, no better than bear; but STILL PrOfes-
sor OF English Literature might have been expected
to discard "female" euphuism, when a sound old
English word would have served his turn
From Charles Desilver, Philadelphia; for sale by
Cushings q Bailey
! SoYERs STANDARD COOKERY FOR THE PEOPLE; embracing
EeSnomy re system q pan Cookery and
Housewife, &c. &c. First American from the one hundred
by NJ GuiIaume st. Jean. vol I6mo., PIP PA. 1889.
The first feeling suggested by reading the above
ttlepage is surprise, that book, which has passed
through one hundred and ninety-one editions in
| England, should now be re-pubshed here for the
first time. Whether this fact indicates an awaken
ing of conscience about stealing our ''neighbors
| goods" oversight, or want of enterprise or
profound conviction that the public taste in this
| country, on the subject of domestic cookery is so
deplorably vitiated as to leave little hope of
demand for treatise, which processes to teach
sound principles of culinary science and art-we
are unable to decide, and so leave the matter
| among the ''curiosites of literature" Upon the
food question, SOyer ventures to record such an
apparent truism as that 'religion feeds the soul,
neducation the mind, and food the body" We
| apprehend that "food" has more than human weak
| ness CHOOSES 10 AUNT, 10 90 WIN the CONDITION
of all three One of Captane John Smiths COM
| panions, of whom several made verses, which are
duly printed in the published works of that enter
prising tilibuster, wrote Gas family remember):
"Truth, travaile and neglect
Pure, painful, most unknde,
Doth prove, consume, Suppose say infect9
The soul, the corps, the minde"
| If the three members of the first line referred
| solely to what Dugald Dalgetty included
under the term "provant," Captain John Smiths
| friend would have expressed our sentiments much
better than we can hope to do. Who does not know
that even in the most fashionable congregations,
| afternoon devotions are proverbially drow.y?
''Who'd pique himself intellect, whose use
Depends so much upon the gastric juice?';
Many failure in business, or lost battle,
or bad speech, or stupid leader, or untimely
heaviness and torpor of the spirit when
it should be all a-glow may be traced to defectssn
the larder and cuisine. Horace was great poet
and wrote de arte poetica, yet it was Horace who
| announced that ''poets born and not made"
which would seem to render his book of no manner
of use. Were we to write "Kitchen Companion"
should state the proposition almost as broadly in
| respect to cooks. In fact, we have put ourselves
to charges, divers times and carried home learned
tones and treatises from the pages whereof we have
convinced ourselves and strven to convince Others
| whose convictions were more to the purpose, that
vast reforms might be effected in ''family dinners"
But our observation of the female mind is, that it is
| obstinately conservative and inclined to empri-
cism, that it has great confidence in eastern
''Shore" artists, and that it is armed with prece-
| dents and memories of the feats performed, and
| wonders effected, by certain mythic Rachels or
Phyllises of other and better days-so that all our
pleas for innovation fell on ears, truly not unkind,
| but decidedly unbelieving And yet what deeds
are done in the family kitchen causing thousands to
die ofindigestion, who have really known the
sense of hunger! Meals come daily thrice upon the
| board of many men, who sit down hollow and
rise up with a consciousness of distenson, and 60
their honest ways rejoicing, and saying, ''Aha, we
care FULL" when, in point of fact, they have been
performing feats of degluttion which an anaconda,
of reasonable intelligence, would deem imprudent.
| NJ Soyer is man of the people-a democrat
among cooks. His ideas and recipes are for the
| million. His book is small and cheap, and written
in a style which is not hopelessy incomprehensibe
even by the ladies of Milesian extraction, who pre-
side in so many Of our kitchens Here is a receipt
| clearly within any ones capacity, no matter how
| stupid:
"No. 254 MEAr-PUDDrxas.-Ca lt's-head and
| tongue the remains from previous dinner, can
be used for buildings, Nth 1oithom title brain
Proceed as for a brain-pudding. little curry
will improve it."
With the compliments of the season, we present
another, rather more complicated, cautioning the
reader that NJ. Soyer says it is only for Christmas:
"NO 1852. PLUM-PUDDING.-Pick and stone half
a pound of Malaga rasins, wash and dry the same
quantity of currants; chop, not too fine, three
quarters of pound of beef suet put it in a con-
venient basin, (Alrs Bridget will understand that
the basin here referred to is not wash-hand basin,
matter how Apy nj n oar
two ounces of mixed candied-peel sliced, three
ounces of flour, three ditto (ounces, Bridget) of
bread crumbs, little nutmeg, grated, four eggs,
gill OF water or perhaps little Ga hrWe more,
| to form nice consistence; butter mould, put
piece Of white paper the top and round the sides,
tie it in cloth, boil for four hours in plenty of
ter; when done remove the cloth, turn it out of the
mould take the P"Fe"~ 80, may be boiled in
| a cloth"
NJ. Soyer forgot to add, what we take
upon ourselves to say, that the favor of this Christ
mas dish is vastly improved by sending large
| slice to the good widow round the corner. with
| the large family Try it, reader!
From Derby g. Jackson, New York: for sale by
| Cushings d Bailey:
Editor of the Louisville Journal. l2mo., PIP 300 1860
Three hundred and six pages, with an average
| OF seven Jokes per page-making in all, jokes two
| thousand one hundred and forty-two and all these
Jokes perpetrated by a single individual Yet
even these are not all the jokes perpetrated; for
the author-who informs us that he submits this
volume with diihdence almost painfur'-declares
that 1t is a "selection"-leaving many Jokes vet
behind. In fact, Mr. Prentice says: 81 have care
''fuly excluded, out of Difference to the sensibili-
tiles OF persons l now esteem and love, thousands
| "of the very passages" &c. &c. Thousands ex-
cluded! As Mr.. Fagin used to say to Bill Sykes
"What man it isl" After reading few pages
| OF this volume of puns-some of which are very
good really, others very ''bad,'' which, in the
estimation of the best judges come next to "good"
! and, by far the larger number, 'indifferent,"
| which all agree are utterly abominabe-one feels
as 1t he had been walking through the chambers
OF an lnquisition, among the instruments of tor
| ture and the MANNED and disiOcated bodies of the
| victims.
From Crosby, Nichols & Co., Boston; for sale by
| Cushings & Bailey:
tbs WHITE HLLs-Thsir Legends Landscape and Pc fry
BY THOMAS STARR KING With sixty Illustrations en-.
PIP 4O3 $50. In gilt and green embossed. O'
This is very beautiful book in all outward SEEM
ing, splendidly printed and bound. The engrav-
ings, however, are scarcely worthy of their sur
roundings.
From D. Appleton Co.. New York; for sale by
James S. Waters
EVENINGS MICROSCOPE, or Researches anong tho
Mlnuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life By PIiTIIp
HENRY GossE, FRS. l vol, II mo. 1860
Also
GREAT FACTS Popular History and Description of the
most Remarkable Inventions durog the Present Century
~ FREDERICK 9. FAREWELL, author of I'aHosopbic5
CoMeerSaltonS, &c illustrated wish numerous engray
ings l2no PIP 307.
Two works of the "cheap and useful" order
The publications of this House are usually of
standard character and handsomely printed
Also:
paper, PIP. Al. 1850. III
From Rudd Carleton, New York; for sale NV
II. Taylor:
MOTHER Goose for Grown Folks. Christmas readi,g II.
Iustrated by Billings y mo-. PIP Ill. 1860.
Faeetious and other poems on subjects suggested
by nursery rhymes. We like the text better than
the sermon.
MAGAZINES RECEIVED.
From H. Taylor
The ECLECTIC MAGAZINE Foreign Literature FIR
1860 ~' ~ '"iAa'S'
From the publishers
APPLEToNs RAILWAY AND STEAM NAVIGATION CrrpE for
December. ~ "
From Sands d Mills:
THE RURAL REGISTER for December IS
From the agent:
"THE BATTLE ROLL" No 81
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