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 LIST OF MR. COBBETT’s BOOKS. 11 Just Published, Price 6s., Boards, SIXTH EDITION, WITH MANY NEW RECEIPTS, OF THE ENGLISH HOUSEKEEPER; OR, MANUAL OF DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT ; Containing advice on the Conduct of Household Affairs ; in a sepa- rate Treatise on each particular Department, and Practical In- structions concerning THE KITCHEN, THE CELLAR, THE OVEN, THE LARDER, THE PANTRY, THE DAIRY, THE STORE ROOM, THE BREWHOUSE. Together with Hints for Laying Out Small Ornamental Gardens; Directions for Cultivating and Preserving Herbs ; and some Remarks on the best Means of Rendering Assistance to poor Neighbours. FOR THE USE OF YOUNG LADIES WHO UNDERTAKE THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THEIR OWN HOUSEKEEPING# BY MISS COBBETT. BOOKS FOR EMIGRANTS. “ If the emigrant require elementary works on any subject of “domestic management — extending the term domestic matters “outside as well as inside of the house — it is not too much to say “that the name of Cobbett may be considered a guarantee that “ he will find the subject treated with completeness, and in a style “at once simple and attractive. Whilst we say this, the reader “ must not be alarmed lest we design to thrust all Cobbett's political “views down his throat. Like all strong-passioned men he was not “ unfrequently inconsistent; on subjects of social and politico- “ economical science especially, he was as often unsound as sound ; “ he frequently threw himself into the stream of popular prejudice, “ not only closing his mind to the reasonings of others, but scarcely “ daring to use his own strong powers lest he should be convinced “ against his previous determination. But on the subjects em- “ braced by the Cottage Economy, and others of a like character, “ Cobbett was and is a trustworthy instructor, and we hesitate not “ to say that the emigrant who will follow his instructions will, in “ a few years, find himself a wiser, a wealthier, a better, and, above “ all, a happier man, in consequence of having done so. The English “ Housekeeper is by Miss Cobbett, and bears evident marks of the “ Cobhett school of domestic management. The same wholesome, “ healthy tone — the same simplicity of taste pervades all its re- “ commendations ; and even in the good sound niother-English in “which it is wiitten we recognise the pure source whence it sprung. “ It cannot be expected that we should examine all the receipts “and pronounce our opinion on their merits. To confess the i “truth, we are not competent to the task. '1 he reader, therefore, s “ must be content with the information that this part of the work • “appears to be very amply stored with the good things of this 1 “ world, and, what is more to the purpose, a very cursory “glance has convinced us that the colonist family might avail “ themselves of the greater part of this division of the book with