feet, with leaves not unlike those of the common laurel,
although more pointed, and not so dry and thick. The blossoms
are white, much like those of jasmine, and issue from the angles
of the leaf-stalks. When the flowers fade, they are succeeded by
the coffee-bean, or seed, which is inclosed in a berry of a red
colour, when ripe resembling a cherry. The coffee-beans are
prepared by exposing them to the sun for a few days, that the
pulp may ferment and throw off a strong acidulous moisture. They
are then gradually dried for about three weeks, and put into a
mill to separate the husk from the seed.

CAFE AU LAIT.

1812. This is merely very strong coffee added to a large proportion of
good hot milk; about 6 tablespoonfuls of strong coffee being quite
sufficient for a breakfast-cupful of milk. Of the essence No. 1808,
which answers admirably for 'cafe an lait', so much would not be
required. This preparation is infinitely superior to the weak watery
coffee so often served at English tables. A little cream mixed with the
milk, if the latter cannot be depended on for richness, improves the
taste of the coffee, as also the richness of the beverage.

_Sufficient_.--6 tablespoonfuls of strong coffee, or 2 tablespoonfuls of
the essence, to a breakfast-cupful of milk.

TEA AND COFFEE.--It is true, says Liebig, that thousands have
lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily
experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they
may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal
functions; but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this
that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their
effects; and it is a question whether, if we had no tea and no
coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the
means of replacing them. Science, which accuses us of so much in
these respects, will have, in the first place, to ascertain
whether it depends on sensual and sinful inclinations merely,
that every people of the globe have appropriated some such means
of acting on the nervous life, from the shore of the Pacific,
where the Indian retires from life for days in order to enjoy
the bliss of intoxication with koko, to the Arctic regions,
where Kamtschatdales and Koriakes prepare an intoxicating
beverage from a poisonous mushroom. We think it, on the
contrary, highly prob