collection of documents, nothing beyond a limited selection of the most important will, we presume, be expected to appear as an appendix to that volume. The price of this collection of papers, bulky as it is, is only four shillings. It will be seen, accordingly, that the Committee must lose considerably by the publication, unless a large number should be sold. The separate Papers and Tracts are all well written, and adapted to their purpose. Their only fault is, that they seem to to know a good nearly everyth formists on general tole lecture, in r dence of the it which do mellow this 1 breadth and Country orders must contain a Remittance. To ensure safety, it advisable to cross all Cheques "BANK OF LONDON." Postoffice Orders to be Payable at the Chief-office, (E.C.) BOTTLES INCLUDED IN WINES. Spirits being sold by the gallon, the packages are charged for unless returned. ALL WINES, EXCEPT THE LIGHTER KINDS OF FRANCE AND GERMANY, MAY BE HAD BY THE GALLON, IF DESIRED. Single bottles of Wines and Spirits forwarded. All Wines in Cask carriage free to any Railway [NOTE.-A few words of explanation may not be out of place here, respecting a practice which has recently arisen in some quarters proposing, as an inducement to families resident in the country, however distant, to supply orders free of charge for packing or carriage. Let us examine whether this advantage be not more apparent than real. It is now some years since that, in order to obviate a palpable inconvenience, loss by breakage, and confusion of accounts, I abandoned the custom of charging for bottles, including that item in the cost of the wines. This arrangement, however, based as it was on the lowest practical scale of prices, will not admit of further extension, and if the cost of packages and the charge of the public carrier be superadded, compensation can only be looked for from inordinate profits or reduction of quality. To neither of these conditions can I honourably subscribe, and the sound inference may be safely left to public discernment. I continue my deliveries free to all parts of the metropolis, as well as at the various railway-stations, wharfs, &c., which my permanent town-establishment enables me to do at no great additional expense; and as the spirit of these remarks does not apply to wine sold in the cask, the full carriage is defrayed on all country orders, for which the time and labour saved in bottling is a fair equivalent.-J. L. D.] Sec. 1. Early Origin and Description of the Vine.-2. The Vintages of the Antients.-3. Ambrosial Nectar of the Antients; their gorgeous Cups and Festal Customs.-4. Modern Wines; their Character and Quality.-5. Of the Wines of Portugal.-6. Of Spain.-7. Of France.-8. Of Germany and Hungary.-9. Of South Africa.-10. Of Madeira and the Canaries.-11. Of Italy and Greece-12. Of Persia and India.-13. Of Columbia.-14. On the Choice and Preservation of Wine. 000 CRITICAL NOTICES. ductory Chapters 7 FELIX MEN- PAGE 255 293 tzte Ausgabe. itical Relation . . 321 collection of documents, nothing beyond a limited selection of the most important will, we presume, be expected to appear as an appendix to that volume. The price of this collection of papers, bulky as it is, is only four shillings. It will be seen, accordingly, that the Committee must lose considerably by the publication, unless a large number should be sold. The separate Papers and Tracts are all well written, and adapted to their purpose. Their only fault is, that they seem to be intended mainly for persons who are supposed to know a good de nearly everyth formists on thi general tol lecture, in 1 dence of the it which do mellow this. breadth and will purchase The Cong Address, Exp be obtained for them; and the Committe their views as which they t about to be Memorial Hal "This little volume is well-timed, and worth the reading of those who desire to know something of the wines likely to be introduced into more general use."-Notes and Queries. "This little volume accomplishes all it promises. Its brevity, with its remarkable condensation and explicitness, makes it a ready and valuable hand-book .... Such an amount of important information could only be gathered by long and extensive reading."— Staffordshire Sentinel. The occasion and scope of the work lead us to turn to its substance with an interest which is not disappointed by a careful perusal of the book. . . . . . It is agreeably written, and will undoubtedly command a very wide circle of readers."-Sunday Times. "It has fallen to our lot to have stumbled upon a little work, modestly named A Brief Discourse on Wine, entitled to high encomium. It is multum in parvo, embracing in a few pages the history of the divine grape, from the earliest period down to the present time; and giving a short but refined and recherché account of the various wines of all countries, from the Nectar of the gods, to Imperial Tokay,--from the Falernian which Horace smacked with loving lips, to our modern Constantia of the Cape. The book should be in the hands of every gentleman who has any pretension to form a choice collection of wines."-Wolverhampton Chronicle. "The author of this brief discourse, whoever he may be, has no reason to preserve his anonymity in the fear that he may have, after all, written an unprofitable book. He is perfectly master of his subject, and knows the vine as it grows in the vineyard, and not as it may be read of in books, and speaks of wine as if he had tasted of different qualities in cure and in cave. As a literary production, apart from its utility as a treatise on wine, this volume has many claims to public attention."--The Field. "This is no listless or ephemeral publication, to be carelessly read and quickly forgotten. Solid and practical remarks pervade its well-written pages, and the contents generally are sufficiently substantial and important to constitute a permanent text-book for future reference."-Brighton Guardian. The "In A Brief Discourse on Wine there is furnished an exceedingly readable collection of facts bearing upon the cultivation and produce of the vine in the various parts of the world. author shows us how to choose wine, and how to use it.' The wines of France, Germany, Hungary, &c., are each noticed briefly, but in a light and agreeable strain."-Daily News. "Within a brief space this volume affords as much intelligence about wine as might make the reputation of half-a-dozen men through half-a-dozen after-dinners, provided only they can continue to speak colloquially, and not by the card. The compiler has put together much interesting and profitable matter,-less learnedly, perhaps, than authors who wrote more largely on the pleasant subject, but with scarcely less profit to his readers, thirsty or otherwise."-Athenæum. only fault is. Just Published, Price 3s. in cloth gilt, collection of documents, nothing beyond a limited selection of the A BRIEF DISCOURSE ON WINE, How to Choose it, and How to Use it: embracing AN HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE VINE, Its Culture and Produce in all Countries, ANCIENT AND MODERN. |