Each illustrated with a great variety of cuts, and bound in fine muslin, gilt.

ALSO,

A SET OF FIFTY VOLUMES OF

CHILDREN'S BOOKS,

FORMING

A SCHOOL OR FAMILY LIBRARY,

AND

INCLOSED IN A NEAT CASE, WITH A LOCK.

Books published and for sale by Charles S. Francis and Joseph H. Francis

THE COOK'S OWN BOOK,

AND HOUSEKEEPERS' REGISTER.

Containing all valuable Receipts for cooking Meat, Fish, and Fowl; and comp ing every kind of Soup, Gravy, Pastry, Preserves, Essences, &c. that have be known or invented to the present time, with numerous original Receipts, and Complete System of Confectionery. By a BOSTON HOUSEKEEPER. To which added, Miss Leslie's SEVENTY-FIVE RECEIPTS for Pastry, Cakes, a Sweetmeats. The whole alphabetically arranged. Also, Directions for the Ma agement of Families, Cooking Utensils, Diet, Boiling, Baking, Roasting, Fryin Broiling, Broths and Soups; Observations on all articles used in Cookery, a how to keep them; Marketing Tables; Directions for cooking Pickled Fis Weights and Measures, &c. &c.

"This book, by an excellent arrangement of its articles, and a judicious compactness of ps and type, contains more reading in its 350 pages than are usually given in a thousand pas of other books, whilst its selling price is lower. Every recipe is plain, and the proportions tain; little is left to discretion, that could be reduced to measure; and every young housekeep should make the volume their first purchase, giving it precedence even to the indispensa brass warming-pan, looking-glass, and iron pot. It is a guide to economy as well as perfect in the culinary art, and a suitable present to assistants in families for the benefit of the wh eating community."

"The late Dr. Abernethy referred almost all maladies to the stomach, and seldom prescrib any remedy but a proper diet. This it is the province of the cook to provide; and the desi of this book to indicate. Every recipe in it (amounting to some four or five thousand) has be sanctioned by custom. The cook and the housekeeper have here a dictionary of reference, encyclopædia of their art. The details are full, and the authority is perfect. There were rious works of merit that it was useful for the cook to study, but here are collected the best pa of all, with the convenience of alphabetical arrangement, and in the compass of a single volum If it is a sin to waste the best gifts of Providence, it should be little less than felony to sp them. More than health depends on the preparation of our food: our very virtues are the cr tures of circumstances, and many a man has hardened his heart, or given up a good r under the operation of indigestion. The natural and moral world are reciproca soul and body are so linked, that when one loses its tone, the other is den The system of morals therefore becomes identified with that of ecc