An amusing Miscellany of Fact and Anecdote relating to “The Great
Plant” in all its forms and uses, including a Selection from Nicotian
Literature.
CONTENTS:--A Tobacco Parliament--Napoleon’s First Pipe--A Dutch Poet
and Napoleon’s Snuff-Box--Frederick the Great as an Ass--Too Small for
Two--A Smoking Empress--The Smoking Princesses--An Incident on the
G.W.R.--Raleigh’s Tobacco Box--Bismarck’s Last Cigar--Bismarck’s Cigar
Story--Moltke’s Pound of Snuff--Lord Brougham as a Smoker--Mazzini’s
Sang-froid as a Smoker--Lord Clarendon as a Smoker--Politics and
Snuff-Boxes--Penn and Tobacco--Tobacco and the Papacy--The Snuff-Mull
in the Scotch Kirk--Whately as a Snuff-Taker--The First Bishop
who Smoked--Pigs and Smokers--Jesuits’ Snuff--Kemble Pipes--An
Ingenious Smoker--Anecdote of Dean Aldrich--Smoking to the Glory of
God--Professor Huxley on Smoking--Blucher’s Pipe-Master--Shakespeare
and Tobacco--Ben Jonson on Tobacco--Lord Byron on Tobacco--Décamps and
Horace Vernet--Milton’s Pipe--Anecdote of Sir Isaac Newton--Emerson
and Carlyle--Paley and his Pipe--Jules Sandeau on the Cigar--The
Pickwick of Fleet Street--The _Obsequio_ of Havana--The Social
Pipe (_Thackeray_)--Triumph of Tobacco over Sack and Ale--The
Smoking Philosopher--Sam Slick on the Virtues of a Pipe--Smoking in
1610--Bulwer-Lytton on Tobacco-Smoking--Professor Sedgwick--St. Pierre
on the Effect of Tobacco--Ode to Tobacco (_C. S. Calverley_)--Meat and
Drink (_Charles Kingsley_)--The Meerschaum (_O. W. Holmes_)--Charles
Kingsley at Eversley--Robert Burns’s Snuff-box--Robinson Crusoe’s
Tobacco--Guizot--Victor Hugo--Mr. Buckle as a Smoker--Carlyle on
Tobacco--A Poet’s Pipe (_Baudelaire_)--A Pipe of Tobacco--The
Headsman’s Snuff-box--The Pipe and Snuff-box (_Cowper_)--Anecdote
of Charles Lamb--Gibbon as a Snuff-Taker--Charles Lamb as a
Smoker--Farewell to Tobacco (_Chas. Lamb_)--The Power of Smoke
(_Thackeray_)--Thackeray as a Smoker--Dickens as a Smoker--Chewing
and Spitting in America--Tennyson as a Smoker--A Smoker’s Opinion
of Venice--Coleridge’s First Pipe--Richard Porson--Cruikshank and
Tobacco--Mr. James Payn--Mr. Swinburne on Raleigh--The Anti-Tobacco
Party--“This Indian Weed”--Dr. Abernethy on Snuff-Taking--Abernethy
and a Smoking Patient--Tobacco and the Plague--“The Greatest
Tobacco-Stopper in all England”--Dr. Richardson on Tobacco--Advice
to Smokers--Some Strange Smokers--The Etymology of Tobacco--The
Snuff called “Irish Blackguard”--A Snuff-Maker’s Sign--Mr. Sala’s
Cigar-Shop--Death of the “Yard of Clay”--A Prodigious Smoker--A
Professor of Smoking--Tobacco in Time of War--Ages attained by Great
Smokers--A Maiden’s Wish--“Those Dreadful Cigars”--How to take a Pinch
of Snuff--The Tobacco Plant--Fate of an Early Smoker--Adding Insult
to Injury--Tom Brown on Smoking--The Snuff-Taker--Tobacco in North
America--National Characteristics--Smoking at School--Carlyle on “The
Veracities”--Children’s Pipes--The Uses of Cigar Ash--An Inveterate
Smoker--A Tough Yarn--Some French Smokers--Riddles for Smokers--Cigar
Manufacturing in Havana.
“One of the best books of gossip we have met for some time.... It is
literally crammed full from beginning to end of its 148 pages with
well-selected anecdotes, poems, and excerpts from tobacco literature
and history.”--_Graphic._
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only to turn over its leaves to be converted.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
“Something to please smokers; and non-smokers may be interested in
tracing the effect of tobacco--the fatal, fragrant herb--on our
literature.”--_Literary World._
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