"To Nelson's memory here's a health, And to his gallant tars, And may our British seamen bold, Despite both wounds and scars, Make France and Spain, And all the main And all the foes to know, Britons reign o'er the main, While the stormy winds do blow." Says another toast:-- "May the deeds never be forgot that were done at Trafalgar and Waterloo." Wellington is not neglected in the toasts, but he is not so popular as Nelson. The feats of the Life Guards at Waterloo are remembered:-- "The Life Guards: that washed out in blood the blots of Piccadilly." Another famous regiment is thus toasted:-- "The Scotch Greys: that made the Eagles look black." Half a century ago was a toast which will find to-day a response in many hearts:-- "The Greeks: may they never fall under Turkish bondage." Many of the masonic sentiments are fine; they are amongst the best in the book. Here is good teaching:-- "May we never condemn that in a brother which we pardon in ourselves." "May the evening's diversions bear the morning's reflections." "May every society instituted for the promotion of virtue--flourish." Other toasts are equally good, but the masonic allusions make them more suitable for the perusal of members of the craft than for the public. Next in order come Bacchanalian toasts. Some of the sentiments would not meet with favour in well regulated society at the present period, but we doubt not were hailed with delight in the hard drinking days of old. The first toast under this head is:-- "A friend and a bottle of wine to give him." Wine and women find a place in not a few of the sentiments:-- "A full purse, a fresh bottle, and a pretty face." "Beauty, wit, and wine." "Wine, women, and wit." The foregoing are brief, and are perhaps the best toasts which link women with wine. The next is not a bad toast:-- "May our love of the glass never make us forget decency." Punning examples are included, such as the two following:-- "May good fellows be found in every port, and all bad ones obliged to sherry out." "May we never be out of spirits." On the whole, the toasts under this heading are not equal in merit to many of the others in the volume. We find amatory toasts next in order, and of this class quote three examples:-- "The fairest work of nature--women." "The village maid, may she remain so till she gets a good husband." "Love without deceit, and matrimony without regret." Sporting sentiments are by no means numerous; only four pages are devoted to them. The following are specimens:-- "May the thirst of blood never disgrace a British sportsman." "May the love of the chase never interrupt our attention to the welfare of the country." "The huntsman's pleasures--the field in the morning, the bottle at night." Some are in rhyme, and the following is a favourable example:--