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thk bar and the man
BEHIND IT.
The pertinent points of the fascinating and many-
sided snhject of wines and lii^uors have been tieated at
considerable length,if not exhaustively,in the forego-
^Ve have passed in leview thiough the
various interesting phases and intricacies of the manu
facture and blending of liquors, and the mixing of
drinks; have noted the medicinal efiects, the prevalent
usage as beverages, etc., elaborating here, eliminating
or condensing there, as the matter seemed more or less
important,and en passant we have been diverted by the
curiosities of history and literature connected with the
products of still and cask. We have covered a good
deal of ground,figuratively speaking—from the Levant
to the Western World,and from the time of Noah to the
present day—treating our topic in all its bearings upon
the object in view,conscientiously striving all the time
to be exact in statement, terse in style, particular and
concise in the selection and array of facts laborously
gathered from custom-house and internal revenue office
eports, encyclopedias, trade journals, newspapers, and
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