TEA LEA VE8 

 By JOHK EK^EST 



1 CCOKDING to Henry Thomas 

 /V Buckle, the author of "The 

 History of Civilization in 

 England/' who was the master of 

 eighteen languages, and had a library 

 of 22,000 volumes, with an income 

 of $75,000 a year, at the age of 

 twenty-nine, in 1850 (he died in 

 1860, at the age of thirty-nine), tea 

 making and drinking were, or are, 

 what Wendell Phillips would call 

 lost arts. He thought that, when it 

 came to brewing tea, the Chinese 

 philosophers were not living in his 

 vicinity. He distinctly wrote that, 



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