. Our Philadelphia. el to which I have not yetsucceeded in tracing it. Nor do I know of any I do not own, and I know asmuch of American cookery books as any of the authori-ties, and I do not mind saying so, as I can without theshadow of conceit. Vicaire includes only two or three inhis Bibliographie; Hazlitt, to save trouble, confined him-self to English books; Dr. Oxfords interest is frankly inthe publications of his own country, though, in his firstbibliography, he mentions a few foreign volumes, and inhis second he refers to one American piracy, and these arethe three chief bibliographers o
. Our Philadelphia. el to which I have not yetsucceeded in tracing it. Nor do I know of any I do not own, and I know asmuch of American cookery books as any of the authori-ties, and I do not mind saying so, as I can without theshadow of conceit. Vicaire includes only two or three inhis Bibliographie; Hazlitt, to save trouble, confined him-self to English books; Dr. Oxfords interest is frankly inthe publications of his own country, though, in his firstbibliography, he mentions a few foreign volumes, and inhis second he refers to one American piracy, and these arethe three chief bibliographers of the Kitchen in authorities do not exist, when I except is true that G. H. Ellwanger made a list of cookerybooks, but he threw them together anyhow, with no attemptat classification, and his list scarcely merits the name ofbibliography. The history of the American cookery bookis a virgin field, and as such I present it to the innumerableAmerican students who are turned out from the Univer-. THE STATE HOUSE COLONNADE PHILADELPHIA AT TABLE 427 sities, year after year, for the research work that is fre-quently of as little use to themselves as to anybody else. But many as may be the discoveries in the future. MissLeslie cannot be dethroned nor deprived of her distinctionas the Mrs. Glasse of America. Other writers, if therewere any, were allowed to disappear; should they bedragged out of their obscurity now, it would be as biblio-graphical curiosities, bibliographical specimens. MissLeslie was never forgotten, she survives to-day, her namehonoured, her book cherished. She leapt into fame on itspublication, and with such ardour was the First Editionbought up, with such ardour either reverently preservedor diligently consulted that I, the proud possessor of in her First Edition pot folio, of Apicius Coelius,Gervase Markham, Scappi, Grimod de la Reyniere, andno end of others in their first Editions, cannot as yet boasta First Edition of Miss Lesl
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