Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), January 4, 1845, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 15

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NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

THE AMERICAN POULTERERS COMPANION, with Illustrations and Portraits of Fowls, taken from life: By C. N. Bement. New York: Saxton & Miles, 1545; pp. 378.

This little treatise, as the author modestly calls it, was undertaken by urgent solicitation of his friends, who knew the author's ability for the task. “There arc few persons,” he observes, “who do not like a fresh egg, or a fine fat pullet.” He might substitute no, for few; perhaps there is no article of food so universally eaten as eggs, and none so necessary to eat fresh. “From my, earliest youth,” says Mr. Bement, “I have always taken great interest in all kinds of domestic stock, especially poultry, when well cooked and laid before me.” No one who has had the good fortune to eat at Mr. Bement's table — Isis public one, we mean — will doubt this. His treatise is accordingly a labor of love; and to those who have ever been engaged in the pleasant business of rearing poultry, it will read like a fairy tale. Hereafter, Mr. Bement will divide attention with Moubray — if he does not supplant that classic of the barn-yard altogether, which we regard by no means improbable. The book is very handsomely printed, on fine paper, and the cuts are something better than we usually find in similar works.