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Testimonials of the philosophy of house-keeping, by Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Lyman.
Opinion of S. Edwards Todd, Esq., Agricultural editor of the New York daily times,
I can heartily recommend your treatise, as it tells every one who reads its pages what to do and how to do it, in the most feasible and philosophic manner.
It is exactly such a work as almost every house-keeper in the country can take into the kitchen and diningroom, and learn, from the plain, simple, practical details recorded in its pages, how to engineer every department of house-keeping with as much skill and efficiency as a joiner working from his diagrams in his Illustrated Architect.
Your book ought to be carefully studied by every house-keeper in the city and country.
1 heartily recommend it to all farmers and mechanics, to husbands and wives, to young men and young women.
Could I have had such a book when I exchanged my state of single blessedness for that of married felicity, the practical instructions which I then needed, and which are contained in
The Philosophy of house-keeping, would have been of more pecuniary value to me than the cost of a thousand books.
The Hartford Courant says ,
The Philosophy of house-keeping really sets forth a philosophy of living which is sensible and practical.
There is in most families abundance of material for health and comfort, if it was not misused by ignorant and incompetent house-keepers.
The health depends so much upon the diet, and the observance of certain simple rules, that there is more need of information In the home department of life than in any other.
The book before us is comprehensive in its design, but simple and methodical in its plan.
Cooking assumes the dignity of an art, and properly so. The book is clearly and agreeably written.
We know of no one of its class that will be so useful to house-keepers
The soldiers' friend, New York, says:
The volume is printed in good, clear type, on good paper, and presents to the eye, in an attractive form, a great amount of valuable information, hints, and rules, worthy of study by every house-keeper.
And we advise all who want an excellent manual, to supply themselves with it, as it is placed within their reach by the publishers.
The style in which it is written is elegant and chaste, showing a high degree of literary culture.
The Boston daily traveller says,
This is a book that is needed in every family; and it contains a vast amount of useful Information, brought together in small compass, and well arranged.
It is the most valuable work upon the subjects treated that we have seen.
The Springfield Republican says
The Philosophy of house-keeping is a book which should be in the hands of every house-keeper; the good sense and thorough understanding of all the matters of which it treats, that characterize it, render it an invaluable companion for the mistress of a family.
We commend it to all our readers, hoping that in their hands it may do much to inaugurate the era of hygienic house-keeping.
