Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

saved me for a time from that dark shadoAV of the valley of death , whicfi ' every Master Mason has been taught to prepare for , but which most of us haA'e no particular Avish to enter AA'hile Ave can enjoy the lodges on earth . NeA-ertheless , " sweet are the uses of adversity'' as Shakspere has it ; and

, illness too' ( though I regard it always as the penalty Avhich has to be paid for the breach of nature ' s laws , iu order to compel us the better to obey them ) ,. like every other apparent evil , is a blessing in disguise , and makes us have'all the . more feeling for the

calamities of others . Thankful for my own good nursing , I woukllike to see every other poor sufferer nursed as Avell as I Avas ; ancl therefore I am glad to see the Lancet writing as folloAvs ' : — " Nothing so much conduces to the successful treatment of

patients in all stages of a malady as good nursing , and cooking plays a prominent part in the regime . NotAvithstanding this circumstancS , AA'hich must be universally recognised , it is the exception to find a cook'who can serve up a basin of gruel or

arrowroot , a cup of beef tea or broth , or any simple beverage suited to the sick chamber , in a fashion likely to tempt the failing , whimsical appetite , and humour the digestive powers of an invalid , So apparently simple a culinary process as

beating up a neAv-laid egg in a cup of warm milk or tea Avithout curdling is a feat which can rarely be accomplished . . Every practitioner AVIIO has looked into these matters

carefully must have felt the need of a system of special cookciy for . the , sick .. If some one would devote sufficient attention to the subject to produce a clear , ' explicit , and yet concise manual of cookery for . invalids , Avith intelligible recipes and directionsthe gain to patients and medical

, practitioners would be considerable , and the appearance of such a brochure Avould be hailed with p leasure ancl attended with success . Attempts have from time to time been made to supply the need , but they have failed from being treated as

complementary to some general effort to improve the art of cookery , or adapted only to a class of society in Avhich every AVimt can he supplied Avithout stint or trouble . The object to be obtained is more simple ancl yet not less difficult . ' It is to show persons of ordinary intelligence and with limited means how to compound and serve up the

common necessaries of the sick , diet with , cleanliness ; taste , " aud delicacy For such a boon everybody concerned would be . exceedingly thankful . " Thanks ' to good Florence Ni g htingale , . more than to any single person , our military and other hos- '

p itals are better managed than they were , though we have not yet arrived at perfection in that point by a long way . __ : Two books IIOAV on my table seem silently to upbraid : me for . passing ; them over uirnoticed long One is the admirable

so . .. " History of . the Parochial . Ghapelry . of Goosnargh , in the County of Lancaster , by Henry Eishwick , E . R , H . S . ? and the other " Las Memorias , - ancl other Poems , " . Both booksare admirably got up , and fit for . any library . Col . Fish wick is well knpwn as ' a ol

pains-taking antiquary , wnom Lancashire may well be proud . None but those who have toiled in similar fields of labour can properly . appreciate the . industry ancl ability required to produce so complete a ' History as thisbf Goosnargh ; ' arid ' I can only ' Avish that thehistory of every

express a ; parish in the . kingdom was as fully and as ably treated . Collecting information from eA'ery individual likely to be able and willing to ' give it , examining title-deeds when one has access to . them , searching unpublished records in publicofficescopying

; , monumental inscriptions in . churches , and making extracts from parish registers and such like , is only one portion of the labour required . , ' The ; whole has to be worked ' up into a readable and useful form ; and this

Col' . Eishwick has done to the satisfaction of the most captious critics . For the information Of those AA'ho . wonder where this Goosnargh is , I cannot dp betterthan quote our author ' s own Avords . . He tell us that "the Ghapelry of Goosnargh was . formerl y part of the parish of Kirkham in

Aniounclerness , and -included the : tOAvnships of Goosnargh ,. AVhittingham , and ' Newsham . The patronage of the church of Goosnargh was held by the , vicar of Kirkham until 1816 , but Avith , this exception ; the connection between the tAvo places had for many that

hundred years been so slight , Goosnargh had long claimed to be an independent parochial district , " . The name , lie , agrees with his brother antiquaries , is a compound of the two words " argh " . or " arf , " the Swedish for . a ploughed . field , and « gopsen /* the' old . Saxon p lural , of goose . " The