Strong Drink and Tobacco Smoke: The Structure, Growth, and Uses of Malt, Hops, Yeast, and Tobacco (Classic Reprint)

Though having no special knowledge of the subject treated of in this book, I have endeavoured to see it safe through the press for the sake of its writer, who was a very old friend of mine. The son of an actor who stood high in the estimation of the past generation of playgoers, but who died while his children were young, Henry Paul Prescott was very early thrown upon the world to shift for himself. Gifted with much natural taste and feeling for art, he tried as a boy to carve out a career for himself among the painters. But before starvation overtook him, he was fortunate enough to find shelter in the Excise. Mr. Wood, long the chairman of the Board, who had known his father and always took a kindly interest in the fortunes {of Prescott and his elder brother, providing places for both in the service over which he presided.

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