THE HOME FARM, MENTMORE.
THE HIGHER LIFE.
From the Article (12 pages) by LIEUT.-COL. NEWNHAM-DAVIS.
Restaurants—... Advancing civilisation having shown that efficiency is based on fine feeding, it is the paramount duty of every patriotic Briton to dine not wisely but too well. As a great gourmet has remarked, a rich menu spells a happy ménage. At the same time it is advisable to dine at home as seldom as possible: it is cheap but monotonous, and often nasty, and there are 150 restaurants in London where a succulent dinner can be had for anything from 15s. to 30s. a head, a fact of which the British workman seems to be painfully unaware. The conversation of a chef, or even an intelligent waiter, is, it should be borne in mind, almost invariably stimulating and refined. By thus conscientiously evading the dreariness of domesticity, a self-respecting and well-nourished citizen, reinvigorated by repeated visits to Monte Carlo, Cannes, Homburg, and occasional week-ends at the most luxurious hotels on the south coast, may be able to support the burden of existence with equanimity, and be ready for his country’s call. Every house should be connected to a good restaurant by a souptureenean passage....
[The New Volumes also contain Articles on WEEK-ENDS, PEARCE AND PLENTY, and DWARFS.]
A GREAT WRITER.