To the ancient ecclesiasts the vineyards producing the finest wines of the world owe their existence and their fame--the Johannisberg, Steinberg, Hochheim, Dom Dechanei, Rauenthal-Pfaffenberg, and numerous other growths of the Rheingau; the Forster Kirchenstück and Jesuitengarten of the Rheinpfalz; the Stein and Leisten wines of Franconia, the Liebfrauenmilch Enclos Klostergarten of Rhenish Hessia, and the Kloster Neuberg of Austria. No less celebrated in other lands are the rich endowments of the monastery--the Romanée, Chambertin, and Clos-Vougeot of the Côte d'Or; the Hermitage and Château-neuf-du-Pape of the Rhône; Saint-Emilion and Sainte-Croix-du-Mont of the Gironde, as well as many of the priceless growths of the Haut-Médoc. Like the odour of old arras, around the roseate and golden clusters of the vine clings the incense of prelacy and circles the aureole of the church. One were more than ungrateful, too, to forget the invaluable services rendered by Dom Pérignon in contributing to the vinous delights of the table. Fancy, if one can, a world without champagne--not as a daily beverage, but as a talisman to loosen the tongues of the timid and a wand to evoke the joyous sally and brilliant repartee! With what other potable may one so appropriately pledge not only _le beau sexe des deux hemisphères, mais les deux hemisphères du beau sexe_? Almost equally to be commended are the Carthusian friars of Dauphiné, who evolved the greens and golds of _Chartreuse_; the cenobites of La Grâce-Dieu, who produced _Trappistine_; the Trappists of l'Allier, in whose cloister originated the elixir of long life, _de Sept-Fonds_; and the holy fathers of Rouen, who invented the delicious balm of _Bon-Secours_.