New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-14


the entrance-gate, Htne sa'as, and VINO was
the founder of the Horticultural Society OF Edii''
burgb This hale old doctor died IN 1919, al 'heeA-
IRENE ace Of eghtyfcrr; and TO the very last year
of his life he never omitted going up to the top OF
Arthurs Seat every May-Day morning, to bathe
| his forehead in the Summers dew As acoun-
try.liver, / ike TO contemplate and to boast
of the Loarv age Of these veterans. The IN
scrption Of good old Dr.. Duncan was not exag-
gerated Every man who digs his own garden, and
keeps the weeds down thoroughly, may truthfally
place the same writing over the gate-'Hinc s0ius'
wherever be may place his 'H,nc pecun,a.o Nor
is the comparative safety of active gardening or
farming pursuits due entirely to the vigorous
bodily exercise involved, but quite as much, 1t
seems to me, to thai enlivening and freshening
influence which must belong TO an intimate and
loving and intelligent companionship with Nature.
1t may be an animal view Of the matter,-but, in
estimating the comparative advantages and disad-
vantages of country-ife, think we take too little
account of that glow and exhilaraton of tho blood
which come of everyday dealings with tho ground
and flowers and trees and which, as gcapproachcs,
subside into a calm equannity that looks death IN
the face more ieaIingly than if it were frost.
have gTay-haFed neighbors around me who have
come to hardy old age upon their little iarms,-
buffeing all storms, spetting the cattle which have
come down TO them from ten generations Of short
lived kline, gone by,-trailing ancient vines, that
have seen quarter of century of life, over their
door -seps-turning over soil. every cheory season
of May from which they have already gathered
h,,tv ri
philosophy, and their quiet, thankful and Christian
enjoyment of the bounues of Nature, as something
quite as much to be envied as the distinctions OF
town-craft Task myself IF these old gentlemen
had plunged into the whirlpool of city fivc-and-
fifty years ago, would they have been still adrift
upon this tide Of time where we are all serving our
apprenticeships land if so, would they have worn
tho same calm and cheerful equanimity amid the
haryests of traffic or the blight of panic land If
not adrift, would they have carried clearer and
more justifyng record to tho hearing of the Great
Court than they will carry hence when our village
bell doles out the funeral march for them
The composition of this volume has doubtless
been source of agreeable recreation 10 the author
nor can the perus of it fail TO delight the lover Of
lively description and charming narrative, even
without reference TO the curious morceaux OF AL
cient and modern literature which give an appe-
tizing zest to its pages. Like the recent work OF
Mr.. Mitchell which dates from his Farm OF
Wedgewood," it has piquant favor Of rural life,
transmitting the homeliest details of tho field aud
the forest into gems Of sentiment and poetry, ana
presenting remarkable union Of high culture and
excellent mother-wt.
MRS. STOVES HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS.
HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS. by CHRIsToprs Csow'
yIELD. l2mo. PIP. 33J Boston: Iicknor fied- New
YoIk: Hurd Houghion.
The awkward fiction Of assuming masculine
pen in the composition of these essays is unworthy
of the acknowledged abilities of Mrs. Stowe. II
she intended 10 conceal her own authorship of the
work beneath the vail Of tho anonymous, tie cI-
pertinent was unsuccessful from the start no reader
has been deceived for moment; or II she thought
to add piquancy TO her suggestions by writing IN an
assumed character, her judgment Was at fault, and
the thin semblance Of q dramatic movement, II
attractive at first glance, becomes at last wcar-
ness and an mpertnence Still the defects Of the
plan cannot disguise tho substantial merits Of her
book. 1t contains many hints of great value to
young housekecpers, and a5ounds in who'll some
comments on several Of tho moro palpable blundcrs
in the social arrangements OF this country. Mrs.
stowe holds up TO deserved contempt the preten-
sons of shoddy and petroleum as passports to con-
sideration, rebukes tho prevailing taste for hhery
and show, insists on comfort In the houschoid
rather than notoriety in fashion, end urges the I'M
portancc Of obtaining the true moneys worm ioi
money, reckoned according to the wisest standard,
instead of a profuse and reckless expenditure.
Take the following unvarnished discourse on the
staff of life, and you cannot doubt that Nrs stowe
has keen eye for the homcest facts, no less than
rich fancy for tho creations of fiction:
I To begin then with the very foundation Of n good
table-Br,ad What ought II 10 bel 1t should be night
Dl sweet and tender.
savage and civilized bread. The savage mixes simple
-four and water into balls Of PASTE which he throws into
boiling water and. which come out solid. giutih0us
masses, Of which his common saying is Man eat us,
ne no die which iacetiOus traveller who was Obliged
10 subsist it interpreted 70 IneaD Dis no XII You
Dothing will" In short, 1t requires the stomach 81
wild animal Of savage TO digest this primitive form
of bread AMI OF or less attention In III CIV
ized modes OF bread making Is given to producing
lghtneHs. Ey ghtncss is meant simply That the pHu-
ces are TO be separated nom each other ~ ie noes
or air cells I'D al the different neih'os OF making
light bread Mother more nor less tbal tho formation
| IN bread Of these Glr-eelis. ,
SO far ~ we know there are oup practicable nett DDS
Of aerating bread namely by fermentation by eherFes-
cence Of an acid and alkai by nerited egg or egg
which hes been filled with air Dy Tie piOcehs o DcdtiA
and lastly by pressure Of some gaseous substance INTO
the paste by process much resembling The lmpTeRhh
ton Of water In soda fountain. All these nave one
aud the Obec-to give US the copkea paIucnl U
our -four separated by such permanent mrccIs Us VIII
enable the stomach more readily todigcst them.
A very common mode Of aeratmg bread IN America
Is by the eervesoence Of an acid and an tAa III lHe
flour Tic carbonic acid gas thus formed produces n
mute air-ccIs in the bread, or as the COOK sayT hL
it light When this process Is performed WIN eH"eL az