We fear that any attempt to improve the extreme poor, who live surrounded by dirt and misery, would be hopeless, unless they still have some lingering feeling of this self-respect.

For the poor woman who snatches a meal off bread-and-dripping, which she eats without a table-cloth, and then repairs to the gin-shop to wash it down, nothing can be done.

This class will gradually die out as civilisation advances.

This is seen, even in the present day, in America.
Fortunately, there is plenty of scope in vegetarian cooking not merely for refinement, but even elegance.

Do not despise the sprinkle of chopped parsley and red specks of bread-crumbs coloured with cochineal, so often referred to throughout the following pages.