The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-24

steak" smacking them for the fourth
time land peas, cauliflower, new pota-
toes and sparrow grass, all working up
together in one delicious gravy"
All honest, wholesome appetites had
the sympathy of Dickens, and never was
there a novelist more loyal to the Brit
ish fare of roast beef and stout. Be-
tween these two novelists stands Scott,
and, whole less coarse and realistic than
Dickens more fully homely, unaffected
simplicity and thereby more nobly dig
nified than Thackeray His breakfasts
and dinners serve to cement the bonds
of good fellowship and geniality, and
there is every a hint of picturesque
splendor about them which saves them
from degenerating into mere animal eat
ing and drinking. The noble meal
which the Baron of Bradwardine sets
before young Waverley upon the morn
ing that he proposes to fight the Laird
of Balmawhapple would have dissatis-
fed the ill humor of the surliest youth,
even had not the lovely Rose presided
at the table 'loaded with warm bread,
both of flour, oatmeal and barley, in
the shape of loaves, cakes, biscuits and
other varieties; together with eggs
reindeer, ham, mutton and beef ditto
smoked salmon, marmalade," and all
the othr delicacies which induce even
johnson himself to extol the luxury of
Scotch breakfast above that of all
other countries There is another break
fast, the famous one of Quentin Dur
ward, where Louis XI plays the host in
4 oh, al 81, 1ar in.
cidents in its persuasive appeal to the
readers sympathies, making him forget
the French kings craft and subtlety,
and even his detestible plot for the de-
struction of Quentin, in genuine admir-
alton Of the delightful human fashion
in which he provides for the fine APP
petite of the bold generous youth
There is, perhaps, only one other scene
to match this, even in SCOTS own pages,
and this is the famous supper in the
Hermitage of st. Dunstan when anoth-
er monarch plays with even finer sue
cess the part of guest to the jolly clerk
of Copmanhurst
There is something of the geniality
and good fellowship to be found in Lev
er's lively feasts, which, however, some
times degenerate, as Sir Walters never
do, into scenes of disorderly riot. Who
forgets the capital dinner in Charles
OMalley' with the turbot, sirloin "the
turkey thanked by picktt of ham, and
detached squadron of dickens carefully
ambushed in a forest of greens, potatoes
piled like shot in an ordnance yard, and
massive deCanters of port and sherry,
which stood proudly up like standard
bearers amidst goodiv array" of which
beverages the gallant young men APP
peared to have imbibed with gener-
osity, for it was after Mr. Bodkin
had sung The Man of Galway that
Mr. Charles OMalley threw a wineglass
at his head. and had later on to meet
that distinguished duellist. Although
the young gentlemen in these romances
invariably drink more punch than is
prudent, their convivialities are pleas
ant innocent reading, owing to the
nirth, good humor and flow of high
animal spirits with which they are por-
trayed, and to the delightful aspect of
Irish character that they reveal There
is something more wholesome and nat
ural, too, in young man drinking
more punch at supper than is good FOR
him than in young spendthrift aristo-
crat breakfasting early in the after