diminution of, through the licensing system, 199. amongst the half castes and Indians of the States of the Plate, 202, 203. in the remote States of North America, 209. in New York, 210. in Nevada, 218. in Bangor (Maine), 220. canons of, propounded by superintendent of inebriate asylum, 228. causes of, 229-239. not attributable to climate, 229, 257. fostered by medicinal use of alcohol, 231. arises chiefly from passion for drink, 234. effects of, attractive to many, 235-237. various antidotes to, 239-256, 262. fostered by the policy of the Tory party in England, 245, 249. discountenanced by the Liberal party, 251. probable effect of permissive legislation upon, 255, 256. not the concomitant of high civilisation, 257, 260. diminished by civilisation, 260. Dunstan, abbot of Glastonbury, his monastic regulations, 125. E Edinburgh, the High Street of, in the eighteenth century, described, 166. Education, cure for drunkenness in Germany, 116. effects of in Scotland, 182. in England, 193. in the United States, 206. of the young, cure for drunkenness in England, 245. its influence on repressive legislation, 263. Egyptians, early notices of wine amongst the, 72, 73. drinking habits of the ancient, 73-76. Elephant, the, an enormous Roman drinking vessel (verses), 92. Elizabeth, Queen, helps to suppress “ales,” 136. Eminent men of imperial Rome who were drunkards, 99. who frequented clubs in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, 155-157. England in Anglo-Saxon times, 118-125. in Danish times, 125. in Anglo-Norman, 125-130. mediæval, drinking in monasteries of, 131, 132. drinks of, 132, 133. “ales” and merry makings of, 134-136. suppression of ales in, 137. clergy of, their intemperance, 137, 139, 140. etiquette for ladies of, 138. taverns of, 139. tapsters and alewives of, 139. inns of, 122, 141. monasteries of, 141. inquiry into monasteries of, 143, 144. inquiry into nunneries of, 144. court of, under the Stuarts, 149, 150. under the Commonwealth, 151. under Charles II., 151. in the eighteenth century, 154 _et seq._ coffee-houses opened in, 155. improvement in upper and middle classes of, this century, 168. drinking habits of, in the present day, 169 _et seq._ probable decrease of intemperance in, 192. temperance societies in, 241-244. indirect aids to temperance in, 243-245. liquor legislation in, 245-256. the publicans and their relations with political parties in, 247-251. Epicharmus, a Greek comedy writer, on hard drinking (verses), 82. Epitaph, a publican’s, 214. Esquiros, Alphonse, on wine consumed in English clubs, 158. on English gin-palaces, 190.