3 JANUARY 1863, Page 58

Foreign Desserts for English Tables. By the author of "Everybody's

Pudding Book." (Bentley.)—This is a collection of recipes for dessert dishes, preceded by a rather lengthy preface, of which the author is, we have no doubt, not a little proud. He professes to regard the dessert as a recompense for the toils that have been undergone at dinner—as the time when "having struggled manfully through the previous phases of the repast, and having defeated and driven away the baser edibles, victory and its fruits reward us for our zeal." Nor is his humour inferior to his imagination, as appears from a statement that the English have a prejudice against flowers on a dinner-table, because they have no notion of approving of anything that is a mere "object de looks." We heartily hope that the recipes are better than the preface.