THE CUPBOARD PAPERS BY FIN-BEC pseud AUTHOR OF THE EPICURE'S YEAR-BOOK THE BOOK OF MENUS' ETC. Jerrold, Pauchare EXPLANATORY. FIN-BEC begs to offer the reader a few preliminary words of observation. These Cupboard Papers are a series of observations and reflections on the art of living, which he has gathered in many places; and which, it will be surely conceded, have the best hope of being considered attentively just now. He who has seen humble and sagacious people living comfortably on materials that represent something very close upon starvation to an English poor family; and who has made the dismal contrast his study, in the hope that he might presently observe upon it with profit to many thousands in these dear times; now submits some of the lighter parts of his labours to all who have a desire to know the Thrift that secures Plenty in the end; and, knowing it, to impart it to their neighbours who hunger through ignorance, rather than through poverty. |