Knights and their days

by Dr. Doran

Table Talk. Personal, &c., &c.

DR. DORAN’S WORKS.

Table Traits, with Something on them. By Dr. Doran, Author of “Habits and Men,” &c., &c. 12mo., cloth. Price $1 25. Half calf, or mor. ex., $2 25.

BILL OF FARE.

The Legend of Amphitryon—A Prologue.
Diet and Digestion.—Water—Breakfast,
Corn, Bread, &c.—Tea—Coffee—Chocolate.
The Old Coffee House.—The French Cafés.
The Ancient Cook and his Art.
The Modern Cook and his Science.
Pen and Ink Sketches of Careme.
Dinner Traits.—The Materials for Dining.
A Light Dinner for Two.—Sauces.
The Parasite.
Table Traits of Utopia and the Golden Age.
Table Traits of England in the Early Times.
Table Traits of the Last Century.
Wine and Water.
The Birth of the Vine, and what has come of it.
The Making and Marring of Wine.
Imperial Drinkers, and Incidents in Germany.—An
Incident of Travel.
A few odd Glasses of Wine. [Egyptian]
The Tables of the Ancient and Modern
The Diet of the Saints of Old.
The Bridal and Banquet of Ferques.
The Support of Modern Saints.
The Cæsars at Table.
Their Majesties at Meat.
English Kings at their Tables.
Strange Banquets—The Castellan Von Coucy.
Authors and their Dietetics.
The Liquor-loving Laureates.
Supper.

Nearly every page contains something amusing, and you may shut the book in the middle, and open it again after a twelvemonth’s interval, without at all compromising its power of affording enjoyment.—The London Times.

Habits and Men, with Remnants of Record touching the Makers of both. By Dr. Doran, author of “Table Traits,” &c., &c. 12mo., cloth, $1. Half calf, or mor. extra, $2 00.

CONTENTS.

Between You and Me.
Man Manners, and a Story with a Moral to it.
Adonis at Home and Abroad—Pt. I.—Pt. II.
Remnants of Stage Dresses.
Three Acts and an Epilogue.
The Tiring-Bowers of Queens “La Mode
in her Birth-place.”
Hats, Wigs and their Wearers.
Beards and their Bearers.—Swords.
Gloves, B—s, and Buttons.—Stockings.
“Masks and Faces.”
Puppets for Grown Gentlemen.
Touching Tailors.
The Tailors Measured by the Poets.
Sir John Hawkwood, the Heroic Tailor.
Why did the Tailors choose St. William for
their Patron?
George Dörfling, the Martial Tailor.
Admiral Hobson, the Naval Tailor.
John Stow, the Antiquarian Tailor.
John Speed, the Antiquarian Tailor.
Samuel Pepys, the Official Tailor.
Richard Ryan, the Theatrical Tailor.
Paul Whitehead, the Poet Tailor.
Mems. of “Merchant Tailors.”
Chapters on Beaux.
The Beaux of the Olden Time.
Beau Fielding—Beau Nash.
The Prince de Ligne—Beau Brummel.
Doctors Ready Dressed—Odd Fashions.