Excerpt from Dialogues on Drink

My Dear Lord Provost:

The request expressed by you and your colleagues of the Scottish Temperance League, that I should write a plain and familiar Essay on the Temperance question, is fulfilled in the work herewith presented to the public.

An incident which occurred as I commenced to write, coupled with a remark made by you that I should keep as free as possible of technicalities, and should present some of the leading topics on Temperance in conversational language, led me to construct the Essay in the form of Dialogue.

The Dialogue is constructed on the idea of the accidental meeting, in a country place, during an autumnal holiday, of three friends, who hold a series of conversations on the subject of alcohol. The meeting, the place of meeting, and the persons are all - according to the usual method of planned dialogue - assumed. But the arguments and facts advanced by the supposed speakers, are based on the actual observation and practical experience of the author.

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