TURKISH COFFEE. 37 



In Greece, also, I noticed that the coffee one found at the cafes, 

 especially in the eastern islands, was prepared Turkish fashion, 

 and the narghileh stood ever ready-filled, awaiting the bidding of 

 the customer. The Greek coffee-house, however, has chairs and 

 tables, and by its size, appearance, and general stage of evolu- 

 tion, approaches much nearer the cafes of Western Europe than 

 the Mohammedan establishments. A peculiar and picturesque 

 feature of the Greek cafes is their frequent outdoor development, 

 in the shape of numerous small tables, which sometimes cover an 

 entire public square. There the modem Hellene seeks the cool 

 of evening in summer, or suns himself in winter, while taking his 

 coffee and enjoying the light of his brilliant skies, of which he is 

 still so proud. 



" Eternal Eummer gilds them yet, 

 But all except their buh is set." 



There the stranger, on pulling out his pxirse to pay for the 

 cup he has consumed, may find, as it happened to me once, that 

 it is already settled for, Greek hospitality having preceded him 

 in this. 



Prom the coffee-houses of Stambonl to the cafes of Paris is a 

 great leap. "We are here altogether in a new school of coffee- 

 making and coffee-drinking. If the cup of coffee which is handed 

 to you on the shores of the Bosphorus may be considered the 

 general type of the beverage in Eastern lands, it is perhaps equally 

 true that the manner in which coffee is used in the Prench capi- 

 tal prevails more or less over the rest of the "Western world. The 

 cafe cm Imb and the cafe now are to be found everywhere among 

 the Christian nations of both hemispheres. There are, of course, 

 different methods for their preparation, which I shall notice in 

 the course of my investigations. 



The reader may perhaps remember the famous axioms which 

 Brillat Savarin lays down in his " Physiologie du Gout : " 



" A beast gorges itself. 



"Man eats. 



"The man of taste alone knows how to eat." 



Another Prench writer, a lover of coffee, formulates the fol- 

 lowing paraphrase : 



