1892 Drinks of the world

GIN.

— Pope's Epilogue to Satires

— The Bun-

Massiiger's Du'ze of Milan

— Sir R. Walpolc— The Fall — Schiedam Adulter-

dad— WiXi'idim III.— Lord Hervey

— Hogarth's Gin Lane — Captain Dudley Bradstreet

of Madame Geneva

— Gin Sling

— Tom and Jerry

ation

Hawthorn. GIN is an alcoholic drink distilled from malt or from unmalted barley or other grain, and after- wards rectified and flavoured. The word is French, genievre, juniper, corrypted intO' Geneva, and sub- sequently into its present form. It is to the berries of the juniper that the best Hollands owes its flavour. Perhaps one of the earliest allusions to gin is in Massingers Dttke of Milan (1623), Act I., scene i., when Graccho, a creature of Mariana, says to the courtier Julio, of a chance drunkard, *'Bid him sleep ; 'Tis a sign he has ta'en his liquor, and if you meet

Ah officer preaching of sobriet}', Unless he read it in Geneva print, Lay him by the heels."