The Art of Drinking: A Historical Sketch

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THE ART OF DRINKING.
A HISTORICAL SKETCH.
FROM THE GERMAN OF
G. G. GERVINUS.
TRANSLATED FOR THE
UNITED STATES BREWERS’ ASSOCIATION.
New York:
UNITED STATES BREWERS’ ASSOCIATION.
1890.
G. G. Gervinus (1805-1871) is recognized as one of the foremost historians of Germany. He was a man of marvelous erudition. His fame rests not only upon a great number of profoundly learned works, but also upon his brilliant advocacy of the constitutional rights of the people, as against the reactionary tendency of the German princes during Metternich’s despotic rule. He was one of the seven celebrated professors of the University of Göttingen who boldly protested against the violation of the Constitution by the King of Hanover. His best-known works are “ History of the Poetical Literature of the Germans ,” “ History of the Nineteenth Century ,” and a voluminous commentary on Shakspeare, “made popular in England”—as the Encyclopædia Britannica states—“by an excellent translation.”