Read THEODORE CHILD upon "Delicate Dining."

This sage gastronomic full soothly doth say,

That no mortal can dine more than once in the day;

Then he quotes LOUIS QUINZE, that the art of the cook

Must be learnt most from practice, and not from a book;

While you also will find in the readable proem,

Doctor KING said a dinner resembled a poem.

We shall next see a cook can have only the dimmest

Of notions of art, if he isn't a chemist.

So we learn here the names and the separate uses