Edward the Fourth reclining luxuriously upon his tottering throne, like a child lulled by its rocking, displaying that rare combination of deep duplicity and heartless gaiety which so seldom exist together, the reckfulness of the one being like a noxious vapour to the recklessness of the other: […]

For example, to make suprême sauce, you add cream to chicken velouté. To make Albufera sauce, you can add meat glaze (glace de viande) to your suprême sauce.

Some idea of the extent of the calamity, which is due to the excessive rains of the summer, resulting in the complete failure of the crops and the destruction of many homesteads, may be gathered from the fact that the committee with probably make an appeal for at least £250,000. Help will be solicited not only from Shanghai, but from Great Britain, America and the continent of Europe. Even should all the amount asked for be raised, it will only permit of an expenditure equal at most to about sixpence per head of the starving and homeless people. For although the term Kiangpeh is conveniently applied to the distressed district, the famine is felt in large portions of the four provinces of Kiangsu, Anhui, Honan, and Shantung, over a tract estimated at 40,000 square miles in area and in the most thickly populated part of the empire.

I speak in this manner because, recognizing the greater benefits of intranasal surgery, we can not but admit that there is always the danger of the pendulum swinging too far, of our being impelled by overzeal or ignorance, thus bringing discredit on measure which, if properly considered, would ever remain of inestimable value.