“Mrs. Lincoln’s ‘Boston Cook-Book’ is no mere amateur compilation, much less an omnium gatherum of receipts.  Its title does scant justice to it, for it is not so much a cook-book as a dietetic and culinary cyclopaedia.  Mrs. Lincoln is a lady of culture and practical tastes, who has made the fine art of cuisine the subject of professional study and teaching.  In this book she has shown her literary skill and intelligence, as well as her expertness as a practical cook and teacher of cookery.  It is full of interest and instruction for any one, though one should never handle a skillet or know the feeling of dough.  Nothing in the way of explanation is left unsaid.  And for a young housekeeper, it is a complete outfit for the culinary department of her duties and domain.  There are many excellent side-hints as to the nature, history, and hygiene of food, which are not often found in such books; and the Indexes are of the completest and most useful kind.  We find ourselves quite enthusiastic over the work, and feel like saying to the accomplished authoress, ’Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.’”—­Rev. Dr. Zabriskie, in Christian Intelligencer.

“Among all the cook-books, Mrs. D.A.  Lincoln’s ‘Boston Cook-Book’ will certainly take its place as one of the very best.  It is published and arranged in a very convenient and attractive form, and the style in which it is written has a certain literary quality which will tempt those who are not interested in recipes and cooking to peruse its pages.  The recipes are practical, and give just those facts which are generally omitted from books of this sort, to the discouragement of the housekeeper, and frequently to the lamentable disaster and failure of her plans.  Mrs. Lincoln has laid a large number of people under obligation, and puts into her book a large amount of general experience in the difficult and delicate art of cooking.  The book is admirably arranged, and is supplied with the most perfect indexes we have ever seen in any work of the kind”—­The Christian Union.

“Mrs. Lincoln has written a cook-book; really written one, not made merely a compilation of receipts,—­that sort of mechanical work any one can do who has patience enough to search for the rules, and system enough to arrange them.  Mrs. Lincoln’s book is written out of the experience of life, both as a housekeeper and a teacher.  Her long experience as principal of the Boston Cooking-School has enabled her to find out just what it is that people most want and need to know.  I have no hesitation in recommending Mrs. Lincoln’s as the best cook-book, in all respects, of any I have seen.  It is exactly fitted for use as a family authority, in that it is the work, not of a theorizer, but of a woman who knows what she is talking about.  It is the very common-sense of the science of cookery.”—­Extracts from Sallie Joy White’s letters in Philadelphia and Portland papers.