a wicker basket about to smoke a hooka; a dervish dancing; and
several persons seated against the wall in the background.

[Illustration: COFFEE HOUSE AT CAIRO--PAINTING BY GEROME IN THE
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, NEW YORK]

The New York Historical Society acquired in 1907 from Miss Margaret A.
Ingram an oil painting of the "Tontine Coffee House." It was painted in
Philadelphia by Francis Guy, and was sold at a raffle, after having been
admired by President John Adams. It shows lower Wall Street in
1796-1800, with the Tontine coffee house on the northwest corner of Wall
and Water Streets, where its more famous predecessor, the Merchants
coffee house, was located before it moved to quarters diagonally
opposite.

Charles P. Gruppe's (_b._ 1860) painting showing General "Washington's
Official Welcome to New York by City and State Officials at the
Merchants Coffee House," April 23, 1789, just one week before his
inauguration as first president of the United States, is a colorful
canvas that has been much praised for its atmosphere and historical
associations. It is the property of the author.

The art museums and libraries of every country contain many beautiful
water-colors, engravings, prints, drawings, and lithographs, whose
creators found inspiration in coffee. Space permits the mention of only
a few.

T.H. Shepherd has preserved for us Button's, afterward the Caledonien
coffee house, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, in a water-color
drawing of 1857; Tom's coffee house, 17 Great Russell Street, Covent
Garden, 1857; Slaughter's coffee house in St. Martin's Lane, 1841; also,
in 1857, the Lion's Head at Button's, put up by Addison and now the
property of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn.

[Illustration: "KAFFEEBESUCH"

From the painting by Peter Philippi]

[Illustration: "COFFEE COMES TO THE AID OF THE MUSE"

From the painting by Ruffio]

Hogarth figures in the Sam Ireland collection with several original
drawings of frequenters of Button's in 1730.

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) the great English caricaturist and
illustrator, has given us several fine pictures of English coffee-house
life. His "Mad Dog in a Coffee House" presents a lively scene; and his
water-color of "The French Coffee House" is one of the best pictures we
have of the French coffee house in London as it looked during the latter
half of the eighteenth century.

During the campaign in France in 1814, Napoleon arrived one day,
unheralded, in a co