The banquet book : a classified collection of quotations designed for general reference, and also as an aid in the preparation of the toast list, the after-dinner speech, and the occasional address; together with suggestions concerning the menu and certain other details connected with the proper ordering of the banquet / by Cuyler Reynolds with an introduction by Elbert Hubbard.

  • Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934.
Date:
1902
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The banquet book : a classified collection of quotations designed for general reference, and also as an aid in the preparation of the toast list, the after-dinner speech, and the occasional address; together with suggestions concerning the menu and certain other details connected with the proper ordering of the banquet / by Cuyler Reynolds with an introduction by Elbert Hubbard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    numerous courses. They remind one of those who for a season find staple reading in a novel ; but turn at times to those works wherein appear the mixture of many talents, and in the change find relish and enjoyment. Everyone knows that some dinners but prove to be time elaborately thrown away, but this cannot be said of that book which permits a feast in which many authors furnish parts. The feast- ing which the mind partakes of in this case is such as to strengthen one for better personal en- deavour. It takes him away from self so com- pletely, by reason of the brilliancy, that the mind assumes a status in a degree like that of the one who wrote ; as one lady at a feast will imbibe ideas to serve her in good stead when she next time becomes the hostess. Note the meal of the busy man of professional trade in the great cities, and it would seem that he hopes for the day when he may wash down his pellet of substantial meal, to be the sooner again about his business. To such a man the res- taurant that can furnish him with a meal for endurance in the smallest form is the one that he likes, while the writer or compiler does the most who puts before his reader the most wisdom and demands of him the least time. As one sagaciously spurns poorly or half-cooked food, so we should lay aside those writings of weak minds whose ill-conceived thoughts have found too hasty expression. If we demand that