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INTRODUCTION
This is the fourth edition of this popular work,
and it is safe to say that no guide ever before pub
lished has met with the success which has marked
this publication from the date of its initial appear
ance. It contains more within its covers than any
volume of the kind on the market, and so great has
been the demand for it that three editions have been
exhausted within a remarkably short space of time.
What has done more than perhaps anything else to
stimulate the mixing of modern drinks by Amer
ican bartenders has been the offer of the Police
Gazette to give annual medals to the three members
of the craft who send in the best recipe during the
year. This competition has been carried on for the
past seven years, during which time thousands of
recipes for drinks, new as well as old, have been sent
to the Gazette office and printed in the columns of
that paper. Ihe contest is a'.ways open and any
bartender or saloon man is qualified to compete by
simply sending his recipe in. Every week the Gazette
prints from a half to a column of these recipes, so
the up-to-date man can keep posted on what other
men in the trade are doing. ^
An attempt has been made to make this book one
of the most comprehensive ever published, and that
it has been successful a glance between the covers
will show. As a guide for the bartender and saloon-
man nothing could be more complete, as it contains
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