This piece of art, which gave its name to the establishment, was the work of one of Mrs. St John Deloraine's friends, an artist of the highest promise, who fell an early victim to arrangements in haschisch and Irish whiskey.
"The Mark Of Cain"
Andrew Lang
No fermented liquors form part of the Martial diet; but some narcotics resembling haschisch and opium are much relished.
"Across the Zodiac"
Percy Greg
The Goncourts' vision of reality might almost be called an exaggerated sense of the truth of things; such a sense as diseased nerves inflict upon one, sharpening the acuteness of every sensation; or somewhat such a sense as one derives from haschisch, which simply intensifies, yet in a veiled and fragrant way, the charm or the disagreeableness of outward things, the notion of time, the notion of space.
"Figures of Several Centuries"
Arthur Symons