An Anglo-Chinese Cookery Book will surely come as a boon and a blessing to many a young housekeeper in China who is at her wits' end to know how to explain to the bland oriental in her kitchen within the limitation of "pidgin" the preparation of those delicacies with ich she would fain keep the affections of her hungry, and sometimes disappointed husband. That "feed the brute " is the underlying maxim upon which depends domestic bliss cannot be too seriously absorbed, and for this reason alone we should heartily commend these two volumes (one in English, the other, to correspond, in El iinese) which are to be published in March.
We are not, however, concerned with pushing the book' merely for its own sake. The entire net pro-deeds will be given to the British Women's Work Association during the continuance of the war and thereafter to local charities, The authors, Mrs. Calder Marshall and Mrs. Bryant, in desiring to hand over as large a sum as possible, ask us to draw attention to the fact that the placing of advertisements in the book will confer permanent benefit on the advertiser of house-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.