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Middleton (London : Simpkin & Marshall). A 

 cheap, handy, full, and practical work, both of 

 reference and study. That it has taken well is proved 

 by its having reached a second edition. Durranfs 

 Handbook for Essex, by Miller Christy (Chelmsford: 

 Ed. Durrant). A prettily got-up guide to the principal 

 buildings, places, and objects of interest in every 

 parish in Essex. Mr. R. M. Christy is well known to 

 most of our readers as an ardent botanist and 

 naturalist. He is no less successful as a topographer 

 and antiquary. This is demonstrated by the more 

 important and larger work, The Trade Signs of Essex, 

 by Miller Christy (Chelmsford : same publisher), a 



KINNI-KINNIC AND INDIAN PIPES. 



By Rev. Vincent Clementi, B.A., of Peterboro', 

 Ontario, Canada. 



THAT the aborigines of America are inveterate 

 smokers is, I presume, a well-known fact ; for, 

 without referring at any length to the introduction of 

 tobacco from this continent into Europe, whether by 

 Hernandez, in 1560, or by Hawkins, five years later, 

 the North American Indians were found in the 

 enjoyment of "the weed" nearly seventy years 

 anterior to the earlier of those two dates. 



The tobacco-plant, however, requires a warm 



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pleasantly written account of the origins and meanings 

 of public, local and other signs now or formerly found 

 in this interesting county. The frontispiece of High 

 Street, Chelmsford, in 1762, is worth the money. 



Bird Stories, Old and New, by Harrison Weir 

 (London: S. P. C. K.). A delightfully artistic, 

 although unpretending and real story-book, turned 

 out by a man who is both an artist and a naturalist, 

 and an ornithologist more particularly. It is the 

 prettiest gift-book of the season. 



climate to bring its leaves to perfection, and therefore 

 the Nomades of the Great North-West, when unable 

 to purchase the pure Nicotiana, have been in the 

 habit of using other plants for the plenishing of their 

 pipes. 



The most common of these substitutes is kinni- 

 kinnic, sometimes written kin nik kin nik, which is 

 the dried bark of the silky cornel, or dogwood 

 {Corn us sericea). 



Another substitute, although neither so common 



