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vagance ? But her* shall-leave the pecuniary expenses
on one side, which a man of wealth can easily surmount
when required. So now, dearest, for the extraordinary
fact ; imagine on the top of the above-mentioned hill a,
rushlight of a boy just entering his tenth year, sur-
rounded with the recherche provisions and delicacies
claimed by his rank and wealth, taking merely the
medium consumption of his daily meals. By closely
calculating, he would be surrounded and gazed at by
the following number of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, &c.
—By no less than 30 oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200
lambs, 50 pigs ; in poultry, 1,200 fowls, 300 turkeys,
150 geese, 400 ducklings, 263 pigeons ; 1,400 part.
ridges, pheasants, and grouse ; 600 woodcocks and
snipes; 600 wild ducks, widgeon, and teal; 450 plovers,
ruffes, and reeves ; 800 quails, ortolans, and doterrels,
and a few guillemots and other foreign birds ; also 500
hares, and rabbits, 40 deer, 120 Guinea fowl, 10 pea-
cocks, and 360 wild fowl. In the way of fish, 120
turbot, 140 salmon, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 mackerel,
300 whitings, 800 soles and slips, 400 flounders,
400 red mullet, 200 eels, 500 haddocks, 400 herrings,
5,000 smelts, and some hundred thousand of those deli-
cious silvery whitebait, besides a few hundred species of
fresh-water fishes. In shell fish, 20 turtle, 30,000 °ye.
tern, 1,500 lobsters or crabs, 300,000 prawns, shrimps,
sardines, and anchovies. In the way of fruit, about 8601bs.
of pine-apples and grapes, 600 peaches, 1,400 apricots,
240 melons, some hundred thousand plums, greengages,
apples, pears, and some millions of cherries, strawberries,
raspberries, currants, mulberries, and an abundanee of
other small fruit, viz., walnuts, chesnuts, dry figs, and
plums. In vegetables of all kinds, 5,475 lbs. weight,
and about 2,4841b5. of butter, 684 lbs. of cheese, 21,000
eggs, 800 ditto plovers. Of bread, 41 tons, half a ton
of salt and pepper, near 21 tons of sugar ; and, if he had
happened to be a covetous boy, he could have formed a
fortification or moat round the said hill with the liquids
be would have to partake of to facilitate the digestion of
the above-named provisions, which would amount to no
less than 10,5161 gallons, which may be taken as beg
low:-49 hogsheads of wine, 1,3681 gallons of beer
584 gallons of spirits, 342 liqueurs, 2,3941 gal
lons of [coffee, cocoa, tea, &c., and 304 gallons of
milk, 2,736 gallons of water • all of which would actually
protect Wm and his anticipated property from any young
thief or fellow-schoolboy, like Alexander Dumas had
protected Dante and his immense treasure from the pi-
rates in his island of Monte Christo. You, now,:dearest,
fancy that I am exaggerating in every way ; but to con-
vince
you, and to prevent you puzzling your brain to no
purpose, I also enclose you a medium scale of the re-
gular meals of the day, from which I have taken my
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have named in detail the probable delicacies that
would be selected by an epicure through life. But
observe that I did not count the first 10 years of his
life, at the beginning of which he lived upon pap,
bread and mill, &c., also a little meat, the expense of
which I add to the age from 10 to 20, as no one can
really be called an epicure before that age ; it will thus
make the expenses more equal as regards the calculation.
The following is the list of what I consider his daily
meals :

•' Breakfast.—Three quarters of a pint of coffee, four
ounces of bread, one ounce of butter, two eggs, or four
ounces of meat, or four ounces of fish.
"Lunch.—Two ounces of bread, two ounces of meat
or poultry, or game, two ounces of vegetables, and half
a pint of beer or a glass of wine.
" Dinner.—Half a pint of soup, a quarter of a pound
of fish, half a pound of meat, a quarter of a pound of
poultry, a quarter of a pound of savoury dishes or game,
two ounces of vegetables, two ounces of bread, two
ounces of pastry or roasts, half an ounce of cheese, a
quarter of a pound of- fruit, one pint of wine, one glass
of liqueur, one cup of coffee or tea ; at night one glass of
spirits and water.

" Now that I have given you these important details,
perhaps you will give me some little credit for my exac-
tion and severity respecting the attention which ought
to be daily paid to the indispensable and useful art of
cookery by our middle classes. I shall also observe to
you, that those masses of provisions above described in
the expose of 60 years, have been selected, dressed, and
served, by scientific hands, every real epicure choosing
through life the best cook, and consequently the best of
provisions, which, had they have fallen into the hands
of inexperienced persons, would very likely have wasted
one-third, thereby increasing the expenses, and never
giving any real satisfaction to the consumer ; therefore,
let us act in a small way as becomes us, as the wealthy
do according to their incomes ; let every housekeeper
devote more time to the study of domestic and practical
economy ; and in many instances it will increase their
incomes as well as their daily comforts, for, as I re-
marked to you that the pleasures of the table being not
only the most expensive part of human luxury, but also
the soul of sociability, they require more attention be.
stowed upon them than is done at the present day."

Glees and Madrigals. Printed for the Society,
and sold by Ewer and Co. Leader and Co.,
and other booksellers.
" Glees and Madrigals," sung by the Concordia
Society, are lying before us, and remind us of the•
pleasure we have derived from the able perform.
ante of the same at the Society's rooms.
We happen to be among those who appreciate
and love the quaint compositions, in word and
note, of such writers as Herrick, Carew, Lovelace,
Shenstone, and Sir J. Suckling ; and such musicians
as Mnrningi-An, T-TnrApy, ealleott, Webbo, and
Wilbye, with a host of others of similar genius and
feeling. The choral of these exquisite strains must
ever afford a pure delight to all who have a soul
attuned to Nature's key note ' • and, for our own
part, we would rather listen to the harmony of
" When the wind blows," " How sweet in the
woodlands," or " Come with me, and be my love,"
than be doomed to sit out a " modern opera."
There is something in the rhymes to these old-
fashioned melodies, we suspect, which materially
helps the charm. Who will not admire the follow
ins simple and pretty conceit ?
" In going to nay lonely bed,
As one that would have slept,
I heard a wife sing to her child,
That long had mourned and wept.
She sighed sore, and sang full sweet,
To lull the babe to rest ;
That world not cease, but cried the more,
Upon its mother's breast.
She was full weary of her watch,
And grieved with her child ;
She rocked it, and rated it,
Till that on her it smiled.
Then did she say, Now have I found
This proverb true to prove,
' The falling out of faithful friends
Renewing is of love.' "
Then let any one hearken to these words with
Horsley's beautiful music wedded to them, and
many of our every-day " ballad-mongers" will lose
by the comparison, we fear.
" When the wind blows in the sweet rose-tree,
And the cow lows on the fragrant
And the stream flows all bright and free,
'Tis not for thee, 'tis not for me,
'Tis not for any one here I trow—
The gentle wind bloweth,
The happy cow loweth,
The mercy stream floweth,
For all below.
Oh ! the Spring, the bountiful Spring,
She shineth and smileth on everything."
We warmly congratulate the Concordia Society on
the patronage it deserves and appears to meet
with.

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