_Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, Author of “The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man,” and of various other valuable Contributions to our Scientific Literature_, No apology would be necessary for the publication of a good and comprehensive work on the history of intoxicating drinks; for, strange to say, although the subjects of drinking and drunkenness have attracted the attention of writers in every age, there appears to have been only one treatise which has attempted to deal with the whole question in a systematic and historical manner, and that was “An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of both Ancients and Moderns in the use of Inebriating Liquors” (&c…
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