No. 12.—That beer saloons should be subjected to the same restrictions under which ordinary grog shops are placed. Further comment would be superfluous, especially as this whole matter is, strictly speaking, a digression from the purpose of the chapter, although one that is so natural as to be almost inevitable. There has also been much misrepresentation of the views of prominent men. For instance, the _Religious Herald_ of Hartford, Conn., recently reprinted an article in which it is asserted that Professor Liebig “has proved to a certainty that as much flour as can lie on the point of a table knife is more nutritious than eight quarts of Bavarian beer, counted the best made. Also that the man who drinks two gallons of Bavarian beer a day for a year, gets only as much nutriment from his seven hundred and thirty gallons as he would from one five-pound loaf of bread or three pounds of flesh!” The article has been extensively copied all over the country and is calculated to do much harm by throwing the influence of an important name on a side where it was never intended to go. Now it is barely possible that Professor Liebig made such a statement as to nutriment of a special form, though we are not aware of any passage that can give the least color to the assertion. On the other hand his real view appears in such passages as the following: “Pure lager beer, when taken with lean flesh and little bread yields a diet approaching to milk; with fat meat, approaching to rice or potatoes.” And again, “In beer-drinking countries it is the universal medicine for the healthy as well as for the sick, and it is milk to the aged.” These views are shared by almost all the eminent men who have made a scientific study of beer, and the opinions and results reached by a large number of chemists of high authority will be found in a subsequent chapter. “We have anticipated thus much here because in describing beer as it is, it seemed necessary to indicate to some degree what it is not, at least so far as to explain that it is not generally adulterated, and is not wholly useless, as a large party constantly asserts it to be.” CHAPTER VI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALE, PORTER AND LAGER BEER.