Among the many valuable authorities on subjects connected with food, the following have been consulted in preparing this work. The Cook Books are named, not according to their merit, but in the order in which the author has had personal knowledge of them: -

Youmans's Handbook of Household Science.

Johnston's Chemistry of Common Life.

Wells's Science of Common Things.

Lewes's Physiology of Common Life.

Gray's How Plants Grow.

Dalton's Physiology.

Webster's Dictionary.

Food. By A. H. Church.

Food for the Invalid.

Family Receipt Books without number; and Cook Books by Mrs. Henderson, Marion Harland, Mrs. Cornelius, Mrs. Beecher, Warne, Francatelli, Soyer, Mrs. Whitney, Miss ' Parloa, Mrs. Campbell, Miss Corson, Mrs. Beeton, and Mrs. Ewing.

LECTURES and PRACTICAL TALKS ON COOKERY

(WITH DEMONSTRATION IF DESIRED)

By MRS. LINCOLN

SUBJECTS

ART AND SCIENCE, VERSUS DRUDGERY AND LUCK

IDEAL HOUSEKEEPING

DOMESTIC SCIENCE

ECONOMIC BUYING

RECIPROCAL DUTIES OF HOSTESS AND GUEST

LUNCHEON AND DINNER GIVING

FURNISHING A HOME

GLIMPSES OF FOREIGN HOUSEKEEPING

PRACTICAL TALKS ON THE KITCHEN

PRACTICAL TALKS ON ALL FORMS OF COOKING

Schools, Societies, and Women's Clubs desiring one or more lectures may secure Mrs. Lincoln's services by applying to her personally or by letter.

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MRS. MARY J. LINCOLN

204 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass.

COOK BOOKS

.....BY.....

MRS. MARY J. LINCOLN,

Formerly MARY J. BAILEY, of the class of 1864. Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass.

BOSTON COOK BOOK. Illustrated, l2mo. Price, $2.00.

It is the trimmest, best arranged, best illustrated, most intelligible manual of cookery as a high art, and as an economic art, that has appeared. - Independent.

CARVING AND SERVING. Square l2mo. Price, 60 cents.

We have in this dainty little book, told clearly and even entertainingly, and yet without a wasted word, practical and minute directions how to put meat on the table, how to cut it up, and how to distribute it, with special directions about each particular dish; also how to help to vegetables, soups, and articles of dessert; and suggestions about utensils, etc. It is highly to be recommended. -Rev. F. N. Zabriskie, D.D.

THE BOSTON SCHOOL KITCHEN TEXT BOOK. l2mo. Price, $1.00.

Lessons in Cooking for the use of Teachers and Classes in Public and Industrial Schools.

You have made our whole country your debtor by the composition of a book so much needed, and so simple, sensible, and thorough. It will greatly aid in making instruction in the theory and practice of cookery a part of our school courses. - George C. Chase, Professor of English Literature, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.

THE PEERLESS COOK BOOK. Containing four hundred Receipts. 15 cents.

For sale at all bookstores, or mailed, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the author, Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln, 204 Huntington Avenue, or by the publishers.

TWENTY LESSONS IN COOKERY. Compiled from the "Boston School Kitchen Text Book," and printed on tinted cards. The set includes about one hundred and fifty cooking receipts and one card of rules for general housework. They are used in the industrial and public school cooking classes in Boston, New Haven, Brooklyn, Pittsburg, Milwaukee, and other cities. Price per set. 40 cents. Special reduction to schools or parties purchasing over fifty sets.

To be obtained only of Little, Brown, and Company, or of Mrs. Lincoln, 204 Huntington Avenue.

FROZEN DAINTIES. To be obtained of the White Mountain Freezer Co., Nashua N. H.

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