1864 Bar Tender's Guide price $2 00 by Jerry Thomas

PREFACE.

In all ages of tho world, and in all countrios, men have in dulged in"so cial drinks." Tliey have al ways possess ed diemselves ofsome popu lar beverage a j» a r t from w a ter and those of the breakfast and tea table. Vv'liether it is judicious that mankind should con-

tinue to indulge in such tilings, or wiiothcr it would be wiser to abstain from all enjoyments of that cliaraotc-r, it is not our province to decide. We leave that question to the moral philosopher. "Wo simply contend that a relish for "social drinks" is universal; that those drinks exist in greater variety in the United States than in any other country in tho world; and that he, therefore, who proposes to impart to these drinks not only the most palatable but the most wholesome characteristics of which they may be made susceptible, is a genuine public benefactor. That is exactly our object in introducing this little volume to the public. "We do not propose to persuade any man to drink, for instance, a punch, or ajulep, or a cocktail, who has never happened to make tlie acquaint ance ofthose refreshing articles under circumstances calculated to induce more intimate relations; but wo do propose to instruct those wliose "in timate relations" in question render them somewhat fastidious, in tlie • daintiest fasliious thereunto pertaining. "VVe very well remember seeing one day in London, in tho rear of tho