In _Vanity Fair_, from the introduction of _Miss Pinkerton's_ "seed cake," to _Becky_ taking _Amelia_ a cup of tea, _vide_ chapter sixty-seven, we learn, on the same authority, that there are one hundred and fifteen cases "allowed for refreshment" in some form or other.
A collection of the meals of heroes and heroines in the most popular works of fiction, and _menus_ compiled therefrom, might be found interesting, especially if carefully criticised by Sir HENRY THOMPSON in a separate chapter to be added to the next edition of his really invaluable work, namely, _Food and Feeding_. Do the modern novelists feed their characters as plentifully as did DICKENS and THACKERAY theirs? Be this as it may, these two great Twin Brethren--so utterly dissimilar in every thing except in the possession of the gift of genius--fed their readers well and bountifully.
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