p. 13 | BOOK NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 28, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 26.

BOOK NOTICES.

By Editor

GUIDE FOR NUT COOKERY, TOGETHER WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF NUTS AND THEIR FOOD VALUES. By Mrs. Alameda Lambert. 452 large octavo pages, illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. Joseph Lambert & Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

Many in the world are becoming sick of flesh foods. The sensitive, refined, merciful heart is averse to the destruction of life to minister to mere taste or appetite. And yet many of this class still use flesh foods, because they think them necessary to strength and health. They do not know that there is a substitute. Many more in the world are fearful of flesh foods. Whole herds of swine are afflicted with trichina spiralis or affected with hog cholera, the slaughter-house but a few hours anticipating their death. Whole flocks of sheep suffer from deadly anthrax, and some of the most healthy herds of cattle in appearance, as those killed in Illinois the other day, for instance, are dying of tuberculosis. But those who are fearful of diseased animals know no substitute, yet there is a splendid substitute for meat, namely, nuts; more nutritious, more cleanly, more palatable, if we will let reason guide a little while. "Eat that which is good; custom will render it most delightful." But how to prepare nuts?—Well, the above work will tell you how. Mrs. Lambert, a cook who cooks, describes scores of ways that nuts may be prepared by the arts of cookery to render them digestible and palatable. Almonds, beechnuts, cashew-nuts, castanopsis, chestnuts, coconuts, filberts or hazelnuts, hickory nuts, pecans, walnuts, peanuts and still other varieties are all described in this book—how to make nut butter, nut milk, nut cream, how to combine with grains and fruits, and many other things. But the book is not all of nuts. How to make good breads, how to cook grains, how to cook vegetables, and prepare and preserve fruits, fruit juices, jellies, etc., are told, and well told. It is a book which will be a blessing to the enterprising, honest seeker after a true reformed diet.

THE NINETEEN LETTERS OF BEN UZIEL. Philosophic and devotional essays on the principles of Judaism. Translated into English from the original German of Samson Raphael Hirsch by Rev. Dr. Bernard Drachman. 12mo, cloth, 222 pages. Price, $1.00. New York and London; Funk & Wagnalls Company.

This work is designed to present in English a picture of Judaism, as a religious and ethical force; in other words, to show Judaism as it appears to the mind of the thinking and believing Jew himself. Whoever would know the motives of the deep attachment felt for the ancient faith by all high-minded and noble Jews, can find abundant instruction and explanation in this little but thorough work. The author, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, a man equally renowned for profound erudition, eloquence of tongue and pen, and sterling piety, was for many years the most prominent representative of the Jewish clergy in Frankfort-on-the-Main. The work is, in the light of the present Jew, a fairly good treatise on the philosophy of Judaism, its doctrines in regard to God, the world, the mission of mankind, and of Israel, the aims and purposes of the Mosaic legislation and the religious and social problems which affect the Jewish people in the modern age. It is nicely and interestingly written, and said to be well translated.

THE STANDARD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Designed to give the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, and Etymology of about 38,000 Words and Phrases in the Speech and Literature of the English-Speaking Peoples. 800 Pictorial Illustrations. Abridged from the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language, by James C. Fernald, Editor of the "Students' Dictionary," "English Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions," etc. 8vo, cloth, 533 viii pp. Price $1.00. New York and London; Funk & Wagnalls Co.

This is the third in the Standard Series of dictionaries, and to those who candidly examine it, it will, like its predecessors—the Standard Dictionary (the unparalleled unabridged) and the Students' Standard Dictionary—be heartily welcome. For a small, handy volume for the common schools it is remarkably complete and inclusive in its vocabulary. The newer or later words are given. "Roentgen rays," for example, if the term be forgotten, may be found under "X rays." Where two spellings are sanctioned by good authority, both are recorded, the simpler being given the preference. In definition it is generally excellent. In a condensed form the etymology of the word is given, a feature generally wanting in dictionaries of this class. The illustrations are fine, the typography clear, and the book well bound, and the work, as a whole, a credit to the Standard Series, and that is saying much.

BAPTISM: Its Significance, Its Nature, and the Necessity for It. By E. J. Waggoner. Bible Students' Library, No. 79. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 16 pp.; 2 cents.