312 REVIEWS. {October, 



their utmost to produce them in every variety of shape, size, and 

 colour, derived from both the Animal and Vegetable Kingdom. 

 They have been fashioned to portray both human and bestial 

 features, and the more abstract beings of Sin and Death ; and 

 even the author of both has been depicted on smoking or snuflF- 

 ing apparatus.. If this fashion should be continued by the pipe 

 artists, we may expect a history of some of the prominent cha- 

 racters of the age perpetuated in this plastic clay. 



It appears to us that in all branches of art, design should have 

 reference to its subject, and that a pipe made after the simple 

 antique form is well suited for the smokers^ use ; but Mr. Fair- 

 holt considers that the pipe may be properly represented in any 

 shape or figure, and has a propriety in all. The soldier may 

 therefore chose one shaped like a cannon, the smoke from which 

 would doubtless be more agreeable than that of gunpowder ; and 

 he might properly call this his pipe of peace. The literary gentle- 

 man might prefer one shaped like the head of some of the ancient 

 philosophers, and feel pleasure in burning his weed in the head 

 of Plato, the satirist out of the head of Juvenal, and the me- 

 lancholic would probably choose his pipe shaped like a skull, and 

 so every man to his liking. Mr. Fairholt recommends one pipe 

 in particular, made in France, shaped like an old birch-broom, 

 which he says is good for its truthful character and fitness of 

 form for the smoker's use. As this is the only pipe we find 

 shaped after any object from the Vegetable Kingdom, we might 

 venture to ask whether some of our readers who indulge in smo- 

 king might not select it for that purpose. 



There is a long account of the names, history, and peculiarities 

 of cigars ; also of tobacco-boxes, stoppers, and pouches, ancient 

 and modern. The celebrated box belonging to the parishes of 

 St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, is fully described. 



The fifth chapter gives a full account of snufi' and snufi'-boxes, 

 and the origin of the names of the several kinds of snuff; and 

 here the fact is stated that tobacco originally had its claims as a 

 curative agent ; one mode of using the leaves being to pulverize 

 them and inhale the powder by the nose. It was then consi- 

 dered a remedy for all diseases of the head, brought on by colds, 

 particularly that called a. pose, a dry stoppage, which much puzzled 

 our ancestors. Several old receipts are given. 



But Tobacco, according to our reading, is not the only plant 



