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 <1 list op mr. cobbett’s books. A. GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND AND WALES; containing the Names, in Alphabetical Order, of all the Counties, with their several subdivisions into Hundreds, Lathes, Rapes, Wapentakes, Wards, or Divisions; and an Account ot the Distribution of the Counties into Circuits, Dioceses, and Parliamentary Divisions. Also the names (under that of each County respectively), in Alphabetical Order, of all the Cities, Boroughs, Market Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and Ti things, with the Distance of each from London, or from the nearest Market Town, and with the population, and other interesting particulars relating to each; besides which there are MAPS; first, one of the whole country, showing the local situation of the Counties relatively to each other, and then each County is also preceded by a Map, showing, in the same manner, the local situation of the Cities, Boioughs, and Market Towns. FOUR TABLES are added; first a Statistical Table of all the Counties ; and then three Tables showing the new Divisions and Distributions enacted by the Reform Law of 4th June, 1832.” II. BOOKS ON DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT AND DUTIES. COTTAGE ECONOMY. COBBETTS COTTAGE ECONOMY (Price 2s. 6d.)i con- taining information relative to the brewing of Beer, making of Bread, keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry, and Rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the con- ducting of the Affairs of a Labourer’s Family ; to which are added, instructions relative to the selecting, the cutting and bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the pur- pose of making Hats and Bonnets ; and also instructions for erecting and using Ice-houses, after the Virginian manner. In my own estimation, the book that stands first is the Poor Man’s Friend ; and the one that stands next is this Cottage Economy ; and beyond all description is the pleasure I derive from reflecting on the number of happy families that this little book must have made. I dined in company with a lady in Worcestershire, who desired to see me on account of this book ; and she told me that until she read it she knew nothing at all about these two great matters, the making of bread and of beer; but that from the moment she read the book, she began to teach her servants, and that the benefits were very great. But, to the labouring people, there are the argu- ments in favour of good conduct, sobriety, frugality, industry, all the domestic virtues; here are the reasons for all these; and it must be a real devil in human shape who does not applaud the man who could sit down to write this book, a copy of which every parson ought, upon pain of los3 of ears, to present to every girl that he marries, rich or poor. — W. C. “Differing as I do from Mr. Cobbett in his politics, I must say “ that he has been of great use to the poor. This 1 Cottage Economy’ “ gives them hints and advice which have, and continue to be, of “ the greatest service to them; it contains a little mine of wealth, “ of which the poor may reap the advantage ; for no one understands “ the character of the English labourer better than Mr. Cobbett. ‘‘ Since writing the above, Mr. Cobbett is no more ; his ‘Cottage “ Economy’ should be considered as his legacy to the poor. ’’—Jesse s Gleanings. Vol. 2. p. 358.