The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-26

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however. an enterprising wine dealer. who,
unable to give the rapid circulation he desired
to his champagne, had long sought the indorse-
ment of some more popular name than his own.
His researches, which had extended all over
France, during his travels for many years, on
eagerness for trade had led him, were finally
successful. AT cafe in strasburg he chanced
TO be served with his after-dlnner demi-tasse
and poatverre by a gorcon who was the fortu-
nate psssessor of the cabalistic name OF Roede-
Ter. Here was the prize he had so long sought
in vain, and he secured 10 at once. Proposals
were made, and accepted by the not unambi-
tious servitor, .who dot1ing his apron, and as
ments and manners of the respectable bourgeois
passed with quick transition from serving
drink at tStrasburg to making it at Rheims.
Infringing with him no capital but his name
which, however, was worth more than hun-
dreds of thousands of francs-and that iudg.
ment of wine which had been matured by his
long Indulgence in the leakage OF the cafe or
installed as the partner of his fortunate dis.
coYerer, whose house was sthenceforward known
as that of Theophile Roederer & Co.
1.-THE original Roederers resisted to their
utmost what they deemed usurpation of their
rights, and appealed to the courts OF law. It
his own name. whether for the purpose of sell
ing or serving wine, or for any other proper
Roederer that he should afiix to ali mis- bills.
invoices, and labels the date of the establish
ment OF his house, in order to distinguish it
from that of the original one. In spite OF this
the public constantly confounds the two and
myself have time and again seen at the table of
the Hotel az Lion d'Or, at Rheims, would he
connoisseuIs who had been imposed upon by
an artful and interested garcon, smacking their
lips over an Indifferent bottle of the false and
loudly declaring that they recog nized the flavor
OF the better wine of the genuine Roederer.
TMoet Chandon, the Mumms, and De St
lnterfered with by any importunate namesakes.
The Mumms at Rheims are branches of two
great German houses, and may be always relied
on for fair average wine. De ST. Marceaux
though of growing fame, has not yet in the
United States, the reputation he merits. In
Rheims he is esteemed the most expert and
conscientious of anufacturers. His judg-
ment is deemed beyond appeal; and when a
connoisseur wants the best the country is capa-
BILE OF producing and is willing to pay for 1t, he
can surely get 1t OF De ST. Marceaux."
CRITICAL AND SOCIAL ESSAYS. Reported from
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Philadelphia Agent: Duffield Ashmead.
The present handsome volume, published
by Leypoldt & Holt, is comprised of essays Sc
lected from the files of the New York Nation
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SENSE AND NONSENSE By Simon NJ lands,
Doctor Of Soul and Body Published by him.
SELF Philadelphia.
The title of this work is calculated to con-
vey false impression. The first two words
OF the name are utterly superfuous, for
the work itself is nothing but wretched
compound of nonsense. 1t does not possess
any merit, not even that of being amusing.
1t furnishes the most insufferable reading
being the dullest species of "words, words,
words"-that we have ever met with. 1t
lacks all attempts at idea, and favors the
reader with hash of all the odds and ends
of things in which no one takes the least
interest. The author is the man who preached
sermons at the old Walnut Street Theatre on
"The Church on Which the Rock Split"
and who, in his eager desire to reform the
population, charged ten cents head for ad-
mission. His knowledge of medicine and
divinity, judging from his addresses and books,
we would place at zero. The work is cheaply
published.
FATHERS AND SON. Novel. By Ivan Serg-
helrvitch Turgerek Translated by Eugene
Schuyler. Leypoldt q Holt. Philadelphia
Agent: Duffield Ashmead.
Russian literature, because its heroes and
heroines are possessed of names composed
entirely of vowels, or else of consonants, does
not possess great attraction for the novel
lovers, who dote on the euphonious in naming