TOBACCO TALK AND SMOKERS’ GOSSIP.

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.

“The smoker should be grateful to the compilers of this pretty little volume.... No smoker should be without it, and anti-tobacconists have 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.

In crown 8vo., cloth, price 5s.