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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

" Lord Lytton p.nd Lord Beaconsfield," says a writer m London Society, " have carefully developed the culinary (-lenient m their writings. Perhap3 the novel-reador has observed the strong gastronomical element that is to be found m Lord Beaconsfield's stories. How he apostrophises soup, fish, and game : • The warm and sunny flavor of brown coup, tha mild and moonlight deliciousness of white. Ye soups, o'er whose creation I have watched like mothers o'er their sleeping child.' The whiting is ' the chicken of the ocean.' So of tbe ortolan : ' Sweet bird, all paradise opens ! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music' ' Sherry has a pedigree as long as an Arab's ; a bouquet like the breath of woman. A lobster has all the arts of n, coquette.' So far ray Lord Beaconsfield m the days of Lady Ble3sington, and when ho might meet Louis Napoleon at petits soupcrs. lie laid down that immortal principle which Mr. Bright quoted m the House of Commons — that tho groat secret of good dinners is to have hot platea. Disraeli had some curious remarks on the dinners of celebrated people : ' A dinner of wits is proverbially a palace of silence ; and the envy and hatred which all literary men really feef for each other, especially when they are exchanging dedications of mutual aileetion, aJways insure m such assemblies tha agreeable presence of a general : feeling of painful constraint. If a good thing occurs to a guest he will not express it, lest

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