“The contents of the volume are varied, much attention being bestowed on Scotch dishes, and it is something to say in this age of many cookery-books, that the recipes given are not fanciful, but practical. They can really be cooked, a recommendation that cannot be given to many of our cookery-books.”—_Glasgow Herald._ “A design so excellent, and an accomplishment so complete, may well recommend this volume to the consideration of the ladies of this kingdom. If economy can be combined with an agreeable and nutritious diet, by all means let the fact be well known.”—_British Mail._ “Those house-wives who wish to improve in the now fashionable art of cookery, will find a storehouse of plain, practical teaching in this book.”—_Literary Churchman._ “The late Countess Münster has not only laid English and French kitchens under contribution, but takes us to Italy, Germany, Russia, and even to Poland, in search of any dish that may be toothsome, wholesome, and made easily and cheaply.”—_Bookseller._ “A book of gastronomic delicacies enough to make the mouth water.”—_Surrey Comet._ “Here is a cookery-book unique in character, and well worth studying.”—_Educational Times._ _Second and Cheap Edition, with Twelve Portraits._ Small crown 8vo., 472 pp., cloth, price 3s. 6d.; gilt edges, 4s. Landmarks of English Literature. By HENRY J. NICOLL, Author of “Great Movements,” etc. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION: Explains the Plan of the Book, and gives some Hints on the Study of Literature. THE DAWN OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. THE ELIZABETHAN ERA. THE SUCCESSORS OF THE ELIZABETHANS. THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION. THE WITS OF QUEEN ANNE’S TIME. OUR FIRST GREAT NOVELISTS. JOHNSON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. THE NEW ERA IN POETRY. SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE PROSE LITERATURE OF THE EARLY PART OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. OUR OWN TIMES. PERIODICALS, REVIEWS, AND ENCYCLOPÆDIAS. “We can warmly commend this excellent manual. Mr. Nicoll is a fair and sensible critic himself, and knows how to use with skill and judgment the opinions of other critics. His book has many competitors to contend with, but will be found to hold its own with the best of them.”—_St. James’s Gazette._ “Mr. Nicoll’s facts are commendably accurate, and his style is perfectly devoid of pretentiousness, tawdriness, and mannerism, for which relief in the present day an author always deserves much thanks from his critics.”—_Saturday Review._ “Mr. Nicoll has performed his task with great tact, much literary skill, and with great critical insight. No better book could be put into the hands of one who wishes to know something of our great writers, but who has not time to read their works himself; and no better guide to the man of leisure who desires to know the best works of our best writers and to study these in a thorough manner. Mr. Nicoll’s literary estimates are judicious, wise, and just in an eminent degree.”—_Edinburgh Daily Review._