The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton

of antiquity might generally pass for those of the English manufacture of the present day, in so far as shape is concerned. In proof of this we have placed together the following similar articles of ancient and modern pattern, in order that the reader may, at a single view, see wherein any difference that is between them, consists. [Illustration: _Fig_. 9. Modern.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 10. Ancient.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 11. Modern.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 12. Ancient.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 13. Modern.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 14. Ancient.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 15. Modern.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 16. Modern.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 17. Ancient.] [Illustration: _Fig_. 18. Ancient.] _Figs_. 9 and 10 are flat sauce or _sauté_ pans, the ancient one being fluted in the handle, and having at the end a ram's head. Figs. 11 and 12 are colanders, the handle of the ancient one being adorned, in the original, with carved representations of a cornucopia, a satyr, a goat, pigs, and other animals. Any display of taste in the adornment of such utensils, might seem to be useless; but when we remember how much more natural it is for us all to be careful of the beautiful and costly, than of the plain and cheap, it may even become a question in the economy of a kitchen, whether it would not, in the long run, be cheaper to have articles which displayed some tasteful ingenuity in their manufacture, than such as are so perfectly plain as to have no attractions whatever beyond their mere suitableness to the purposes for which they are made. Figs. 13 and 14 are saucepans, the ancient one being of bronze, originally copied from the cabinet of M. l'Abbé Charlet, and engraved in the Antiquities of Montfaucon. Figs. 15 and 17 are gridirons, and 16 and 18 dripping-pans. In all these utensils the resemblance between such as were in use 2,000 years ago, and those in use at the present day, is strikingly manifest.