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PREFACE.
XV
A
habitual
drinker
will
never
indulge
in
beverages
artistically
mixed;
he
lacks
the
taste
of
them,
as
they
do
not
bring
him
rapidly
enough
to
his
desired
nirvana.
In
drinking,
our
aim
must
be
enjoyment,
not
inebria-
tion.
Thus
the
culture
of
mixed
drinks
will
lead
us
with
greater
sureness
to
true
temperance
than
all
blue
laws
ever
will
be
able
to
do.
Another
reason
for
setting
my
foot
upon
the
slippery
road
of
a
public
writer
was
the
general
approval
my
new
concoctions
met
with.
For
years
I
have
been
urged
to
publish
the
recipes
of
the
same;
some
of
them
have
been
communicated
to
the
public
by
the
medium
of
our
leading
newspapers,
when
occasion
and
demand
seemed
to
render
it
desirable.
Never,
however,
I
felt
inclined
to
giving
the
reader
only
a
series
of
recipes.
My
ambition
took
a
higher
flight.
If
ever
I
was
to
place
anything
upon
the
market,
it
should
be
a
book
containing
not
only
recipes
valuable
to
professional
men
mostly,
but
one,
the
reading
matter
of
which
should
be
of a
kind
that
every
intelligent
man
might
find
at
least
something
to
arouse
his
interest.
Should
this
my
sincere
wish
find
fulfillment,
even
in
a
limited
degree,
my
labor
bestowed
on
this
volume
I
should
not
think
wasted.
The
reading
matter
does
not
claim
to
replace
an
en-
cyclopaedia;
I
restrained
myself
to
select
only such
subjects
as
might
be
of
some
value
to
the
majority
of
my
readers.
In
the
Physiology
of
Drinking
I
preferred
to
give
general
hints
than
an
entire
treatise
on
this
sub-