The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-26
NEW BOOKS.
tThe below namod books are all to be had at MI
RUssELLs, King street,

/ VI the making Of books there is no epd, espe
cially school books. Teachers are now bewilderet
with an7ernba,vds de richesses, tho range of selec
tion is 80 extensive, and the several claimant 70,
favor so nearly equal in their merits, that n choice
becomes more and moro p~erplexy. There is nc
royal road to learning, and "Latin Made Easy anI
Hebrew IN Six Lessons" have seen their day, beer
pronounced harmless, fit only to rank with quacl
medicine, panaceas, "Grammar in three LESSONS
and "'tenography in one lesson," and have boon
banished from the society OF sensible men, There
is, however, on immense distance between the
drearys books over which our. yenegated elders
wore ybdrcked- '.Ruddiman's Rudiments," ssMair's
Syntax," Corderius, }" "Accidence, !" ''Syllabus, I" etc,
and the systematic and progressive works of AN
THoN, ARNOLD, ANDREWS. BULLION, MCCL1NTooK,
and many others, who have m~acadamized or
planted the road, once 80 full of difficulties to the
hill OF knowledge. 1t may be that future years
will see yet other improvements and smooth still
more the rugged road over gerunds and gerun.
dives, second aorists, and worse than all, English
syntax. 1t may be the time win come when boys
Will GROSS over 'Cmsar's Bridge''in a ho5d, skip and
jump, and travel along TAC1TUs and THuoYDIDEs
as readily and as willingly as they now do through
Robinson Crusoe or MAYNE Reds adventurous
talos. 1T is not for us to say that these things will
not be. It may be that The very Orichtons, will
oease 70 be admirable" But, in the moan time,
ut our present speed we confess we cannot see
how those things are to be brought about
The text books we named above we believe to be
excellent, capable, in the hands of competent and
conscientious teachers, OF producing the most
satisfactory results. But, notwithstanding all
this, we are constantly called upon to chronicle
the advent of new candidates for pedagogio ia
vor. Messrs. A. 8. BARNES & Co., energetic and
meritorious schoolbook publishers, have sent us
two new books
4. A LATIN READER, to which ID preaxed an opitome Of
Latin Grammar. together with notes and references to
the grammars Of Hardness, Andrews h Stoddard,
LATIN aSa s 'pro9n .oa Also 2 voca asu y, and exercises in
College Of the City Of New York.
2. A COMPLETE ErYMoLouY OF THE ENa11su LANGUAGE.
Containing tho Anglo-sa4on.F French. Dutch. German,
and Greek roots. &C., DC. BY WIN. W. SMITH. -
The first is o reader after the style Of JAooB's
and ANDREWS well known books, and, while worry
good weican1Ot see that it can clam superiority
to these nr MANY others arranged upon the Same
plan. ''En tHIfN t e.. T"i Ipp
SMITH Etymology, as far as We can see from q
hasty examination, seems to US a book Of decided
merit, original in many of it's featu1 es, and in our
opinion q valuable addition to the armamentarium
Of our higher schools. The spoilers, defners,
dictionaries, etc., usually found in schools, are Of
but little use and the sooner they are superseded
by books arranged upon o more rational plan than
the moro accidental collection OF the initial letters
Of the words they treat OF, the better will it, be for
all concerned Tho book now under consideration
is one Of The best Substitutes we have seen for
these meaningless catalogues OF words and in
fhe hands Of . properly instructed teacher, must
provo an Invaluable text book. And yet another:
a FoURTEEN WEEKS COURSE IN CHEMISTRY. BY j.
DoRArAN BTEKLr, American Minister. Principal Of
stm'r9 free Acaeemy. New York Published by
For once, we believe here ia q school book
which actually supplies the want many teachers
have long felt. In the preface, tho difficulty Great
ing this want ii thus stated ..There is a large
GLASS Of pupils in our schools who can pursue this
branch only a single term, the time assigned to it
in most institutions. They do not intend to be-
come chemists, nor even professional students. If
they wander through q large text book, they be-
6oaaa confused by a large multiplicity Of strange
terms which they cannot tarry to master, and, as
q result, too often see men as trees walking The
author has tried to meet this want by emitting
that which 10 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 q reference book, lest tho
unframed mind OF the reader shonld become
oloffed and wearied with q multitude Of detail. He
has sought to make o pleasant study which the
pupil can master in a single term, so that all it's
truths may become to them as household words"
iH4sDnoom Q, PsAcrsoA4 cooxsnx, FOR LADIES AND
Appleton & Co. 1857.
The Messrs. APPLETON have done the country
another service IN publishing in a cheap and con-
venient form Mr.. BL0T's handbook on cookery, an
art p~ractisod moro widely perhaps than any other;
but an art, also which in it's ranks counts quacks
and botchers inrumerable; an art which is little
understood. and which has not yet been emanci-
pated from the shackles of empiricism. How few
understand the culinary scienceI How few even
know that there is suoh a science. An old pro-
verb says Is q gives the meat, hnt 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
os'rass nSnei can lipast so.foasy bad cooks, and such
wretched cooking, as this glorious Union. There
are various causes for this, Of course, oil OF which
we may hope to- see corrected In tho course Of
Years. W. have not space here, NOR the time, at
present, to elaborate this subject. .,t4,
At some other time we may favor the readers or
the NEWS with our idsas ON our several national
dishes on gumbo, okra-soup, Brunswick stew, hon.
my and rice, Virginia hoe cake, dough-nuts, dodg-,
ers, johnny cake, rolls and light bread, bacon and
green's, short cake, pork and beans, ham and mo-
lAsses, buckwheat cakes, pumpkins pies, hopping
John, potatoe-pone, etc., etc., ETC., etc. We may
draw pen pictures aiso 81 Monsieur john CFapesu
the French cook, with consequential air ana inevf-
table white cap; Of Mrs. Bridget O,Flaherty, the
Irish lady who follows cooking as q profession : (;
likewise also Of Fraulein Lischen or Nannchen,
who are adopts at sauerkraut and kloese, and last
and least OF; Diana johnson, lady Of color, large,
FIT and greasy, monarch and mistress o. an die
surveys, q parsonage vastly more important, and
ten Times as stubborn and opinionated3 as all the
""piain" cooks Of every nation and every cline.
And when we do return to the subject, we will do
so with q full sense Of it's importance. Is not
cookery as we'll entitled 90 it's sister art to be
styled the " ars Onassia'n GyaSunn consevuatri1 p"
Who knows what injury bad cookery has done ?
a tough mouse il China sometimes costa a man
DARN his head, and we have always thought
that the fate Of the famous "Tom /" in Mother
Goose was to DO attributed as much to the quality
az to the quantity OF his come stibles.
Cookery, like spelling, is an inspiration, not an
requirement. 70 deuieat ouisanier, on matt rotis-
seur," is but a partial admission Of this truth.
But study helps the ''usm snsi1asn;" and culinary
genius can profit by the striking generalization
Of Mr.. BLOT. For the good Of mankind, we will
odd to what Mr.. BLOT has we'll written, O great
canon of2tho art, which he seems to have over-
looked, and which has been suggested by q dys-
peptic friend: IL is that s.the frying pan is the
greatest enemy OF the human race"