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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 411
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—? - . Fish-Culture: A Practical Guide T...
salmon arid trout may easily Be hatched , eTen in a ' -drawing-room ; and it is affirmed that " rivers even miht be stocked by the
_continuous be correc use t in of a few be of lie these fwhen apparatuses he . " g " We confidence trust Mr . Fran that cis 6 C may the expresses
< lay is not far distant when , the present taste for aquariums will in ~ this with way him b that e turned iC man to ladies a use as ful we p ll as pose gentlemen ; " since would we qui gladl te be y ent liev er
_nipon so interesting y and pretty a study , " if only facilities were afforded for so doing by the creation of an _egg-supplying
establishment . In other howeverany woman who possesses a microscope
or an aquarium ways , , or who , has opportunities for watching aquatic , lants and animals in a state of naturemay do something to
forward p a very great result . The author , , deprecating too narrow a view of the subjectremarks that the mere hatching and rearing *
of small fish appears , to him to be but an integral part of piscicultureand that if this science is to become as popular among us and
as bene , ficial to us as it should be , we must take a far wider ran 6 c ge We . should know what kind of food suits our various fish best
, and what conditions best produce that food , and how those conditions are best to be cultivatedso that such food may be
selfproducing . Hence it will be seen that , the habits of all the insects and lants found in waterand their correlative agreements and
p dependence upon each other , must be studied . Going lower still , the conditions that suit these conditions , even to their chemical and
s microscop cience , a new l ana phase lysis , of peep creation out of , , is , is a g the I rand have sche sai m d , dim considera of ly fore new
shadowedin which the food man dependent - tion . " , The final chapter" On the Cooking of Fish" refers yet more
speciall tions are y to made our on sex the , , and general some ignorance unfortunatel of y the but Eng , too lish true poor observa on a -
utter point so inabilit essential y to to produce their welfare simple as , p cookery alatable , , and wholesome their ordinary and
inexpensiv "I think e dishes that . there is no greater evidence of the decline of
- the character lower in classes Eng . lan A d than knowled the state ge of of economical cookery knowled cookery ge , amongst and the
labouring intelli practice of men it and , const argues home antl domestic y ties by and the duties wives relationshi properl , sisters y , drawn fulfilled and mothers closer , industry and of , ps
purified gence by , the fulfilment of those duties . What a fine satire it is upon and to civilization find our , to Leg hear islature a talk actuall of plans busy for with ' Moral a ' Labourers Cottages , '
Oottages Bill / as if legislation could be y expected to supply the loss of habits of housewifely , cleanliness , order , sobriety , and morality ,
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Notices Of Books. 411
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 411
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/51/
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