When the three great temperance beverages, cocoa, tea, and coffee, came to Europe--Coffee first mentioned by Rauwolf in 1582--Early days of coffee in Italy--How Pope Clement VIII baptized it and made it a truly Christian beverage--The first European coffee house, in Venice, 1645--The famous Caffe Florian--Other celebrated Venetian coffee houses of the eighteenth century--The romantic story of Pedrocchi, the poor lemonade-vender, who built the most beautiful coffee house in the world Page 25 CHAPTER V THE BEGINNINGS OF COFFEE IN FRANCE What French travelers did for coffee--the introduction of coffee by P. de la Roque into Marseilles in 1644--The first commercial importation of coffee from Egypt--The first French coffee house--Failure of the attempt by physicians of Marseilles to discredit coffee--Soliman Aga introduces coffee into Paris--Cabarets a caffe--Celebrated works on coffee by French writers Page 31 CHAPTER VI THE INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO ENGLAND The first printed reference to coffee in English--Early mention of coffee by noted English travelers and writers--The Lacedaemonian "black broth" controversy--How Conopios introduced coffee drinking at Oxford--The first English coffee house in Oxford--Two English botanists on coffee Page 35 CHAPTER VII THE INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO HOLLAND How the enterprising Dutch traders captured the first world's market for coffee--Activities of the Netherlands East India Company--The first coffee house at the Hague--The first public auction at Amsterdam in 1711, when Java coffee brought forty-seven cents a pound, green Page 43 CHAPTER VIII THE INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO GERMANY The contributions made by German travelers and writers to the literature of the early history of coffee--The first coffee house in Hamburg opened by an English merchant--Famous coffee houses of old Berlin--The first coffee periodical and the first kaffee-klatsch--Frederick the Great's coffee roasting monopoly--Coffee persecutions--"Coffee-smellers"--The first coffee king Page 45 CHAPTER IX TELLING HOW COFFEE CAME TO VIENNA The romantic adventure of Franz George Kolschitzky, who carried "a message to Garcia" through the enemy's lines and won for himself the honor of being the first to teach the Viennese the art of making coffee, to say nothing of falling heir to the supplies of the green beans left behind by the Turks; also the gift of a house from a grateful municipality, and a statue after death--Affectionate regard in which "Brother-heart" Kolschitzky is held as the patron saint of the Vienna _Kaffee-sieder_--Life in the early Vienna cafe's Page 49 CHAPTER X THE COFFEE HOUSES OF OLD LONDON