The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-26
NEW BOOKS.

tion extensive, and the several clallnanls ioi
favor so nearly equal iii their merits, that cnoee
/ becomes more and more perplexy. There Is ho
royal road to learning, and "Latn Made EASY" anu
'Hebrew in Six Lessons" have seen their day. Deeh
pronounced harmless, fit only to rank with quach
medicine, panaceas, Grammar in three LESSONS
and &c Topography in one lesson" and have peen
| banishcd from the society OF sensible men. 1here
| is, however, all immense distance between lhc
dreary books over which our venerated elders
were birched-"R "Ruddiman's Rudimonts, Mar
Syntax," Corderus, "Accidence, ""Sylabus etc.
and the systematic and progressive works OF AN
| THoN, ARNOLD, ANDREWS BULLION McOLlNlooA'
| and many others, who have maeadamizeu Vi
planted the road once so full of difficulties 10 'he
hill of knowledge. 1t may be that iuture years
will see yet other improvements and smooth s'''i
more the rugged road over gerunds ana gerul-
dives, second aorists, and worse than ALL English
syntax. 1t may be the time will come when Doys
will cross over Caesars Bridge"in hod, SKIP ana
| lump, and travel along TAcTTUs and IHuoYDlDEs
as re- dily and as willingly they now do through
| Robinson Crusoe or MAYNE REDS adventurous
tales 1t is not for us 20 say that these things VIII
not be- 1t may be that the very Criehtons Will
| cease to be admirable" But, in the mean tlme'
at our present speed we confess we cannot see
how these things arc to be brought about.
The text books we named above we believe to DC
excellent, capable, in the hands OF competent anu
conscientious teachers, of producing tno InosI
satisfactory results. But, notwithstanding al
this, we are constantly called upon to chronicle
the advent of new candidates for pedagoglc IA
yor. Messrs. A. s. BARNES Co., energetic and
meritorious schoolbook publishers, have sent us
two new books:
l. LATIN READER to which is prefxed an epitome OF
Latin Grammar together with notes and references ~
the prammars of Harkness, Andrews Il Stoddard.
and Buttons. Also vocabulary anu e1ercises
Latin prose composition. By WM. b. sILbEh' h' M'
College Of the City OF New York.
O. A COMPLETE ETYMoLoGY OF THE ENGLISH LASGoAoE'
Containing the An: o-Saxon, French Dutcn 1eTuisn'
Welsh Danish Gothic Swedish. GaeIic Italian, Lan'
and Greek roots, &c, &C. By VIM w. SMITH
The first is q reader after the style OF JACOB
and ANDREWS well known books, and, while very
GOOD we cannot see that it can claim superiority
to these or many others arranged upon the same
plan.
SMITHS Etymology, as far as VIC can see from
hasty examination, seems to us book OF decloeo
merit, original in many OF it's features, and IN our
opinion valuable addition to the armamentarium
of our higher schools. The spoilers, detiners,
dictionaries, etc., usually found in schools, are OF
but little use and the sooner they are superseded
by books arranged upon more rational plan than
the mere accidental collection of the initial letters
of the words they treat of, the better will it be for
all concerned. The book now under consideration
is one of the best substitutes we have seen FOR
these meaningless catalogues of words; and IN
the hands OF a properly instructed teacher, must
prove an invaluable text book. And yet another !:
FOURTEEN WEEKS COURSE IN CHEMISTRY By J:
DoRNAN STEELE, American Minister, Principal OF
Eimira Free Academy. New York: Published oy
A. S. Barnes & Co. Charle ston JOHN RUSSELL
For once, we believe hero is school book
which actually supplies the want many teachers
have long felt In the preface, the difficulty Great
ing this want is thus stated "There is large
class of pupils in our schools who can pursue this
branch only single term, the time assigned to it
in most institutions. They do not intend to be-
come chemists, nor even professional students. Ii
they wander through large text book they be-
come confused by large multiplicity OF strange
terms which they cannot tarry to master, and as
a result, too often see men trees walking. The
author has tried to meet this want by omitiing
that which is perfectly obvious to the eye-that
which everybody already knows-that which could
not be long retained in the memory-and that
which is essential only to the chemist. He has
not attempted to make reference book, lest tho
unframed mind of the reader should become
coffed and wearied with multitude Of detail. He
has sought to make pleasant study which the
pupil can master in single term, so that all its
truths may become to them as household words"
HANDBOOK OF PRACTICAL COOKERY. FOR LADIES AND
Ry
Appleton Co. 1851
The Messrs. APPLETON have done the country
another service IN publishing in cheap anl con-
venient form Mr.. BIoT's handbook on cookery, an
.rt practised more widely perhaps than any other;
but an art also which in its ranks counts quacks
and botchers inrumerable; an art which is little
understood, and which has not yet been emanci-
pated from the sLaclles of empircism. How few
understand the culinary science! How few even
know that there is such a science. An old pro-
verb saws ''God gives the meat, but the devil
sends the cooks" and there are few whose expert
ence will not confirm the truth OF this "old saw.
But of all the countries on this baked planet OF
ours none can boast so many bad cooks, and such
wretched cooking, as this glorious Union There
are various causes for this Of course, all OF which
ne may hope to see corrected i'll the course OF
years. We have not space here, nor the time at
present, to elaborate this subject.
At some other time we may favor the renders Of
the NEWS with our ideas on our several national
dishes ON gumbo okra-soup, Brunswick stew, hon.
inv and rice, Virginia hoe cake, dough-nuts, dodg-
ers, Johnny cake, rolls and light bread bacon and
greens, short cake, pork and beans, ham and mo-
lasses, buckwheat cakes, pumpkin pies, hopping
john, potatoe-pone, ETC., etc., etc., ETC. we may
draw pen pictures also of Monsieur John Crapeau
the French cook, with consequential air and mev-
table white cap; of Mrs. Bridget OFlaherty, the
Irish lady who follows cooking as q profession !;
likewise also of Fraulein Lischcn or Nannchen,
who are adopts at sauerkraut and kloese, and last
and least of Diana Johnson lady Of color, large,
| fat and greasy, monarch and mistress OF all she
surveys, parsonage vastly more import ant, and
ten times as stubborn and opinionated as all the
| ''plain" cooks of every nation and every cline.
| And when We do return to the subject, we will do
SO with q full sense of its Importance. Is not
cookery as well entitled as its sister art to be
STYLED tbs ''arS onlnium drfau1n conserodhtr :!
| Who knows what injury bad cookery has done
tough mouse IL China sometimes costs man.
DARN his head, and We have always thought
| that the fate of the famous Tom " in Mother
Goose was to be attributed as much to the quality
as to the quantity of his comestbes.
Cookery, like spelling, is an inspiration, not an
requirement. son deuieW cuistnier, on matt FoitS-
seur," is but partial admission of this truth.
But study helps the ''otn. ulsitdn;" aud culinary
genius can profit by the striking generalizations
of Mr.. BLOT. For the good of mankind, We will
add to what Mr.. BLOT has well written, great
canon of the art, which he seems to have over
looked, and which has been suggested by dys-
peptic friend: it is that 1.-The frying pan Is the
| greatest enemy OF the human race.
| / DAUGHTER OF THE EMPRESS.
| 9. NAPOLEON AND THE QUEEN OF PRUssIA-An Historl
cal Novel. nY L. Muhlbach. New YORK: " ApplelOl