X CONTENTS 



SYMPOSIUM 



CHAPTER II . . .15 



Part II 



Carlyle as a persistent preacher of the gospel of silence with 

 his pipe — Frederick the Great's Tobacco Parliament — 

 Carlyle's early experience in smoking and his first pinch 

 of snuff — Charles Lamb and his associates over the pipe — 

 Bismarck's Bund story — Divergent French views on the 

 use of tobacco — Robert Hall, Spurgeon, Capt. Marry&t, 

 Fairholt, Inglis, Thackeray, and Bulwer Lytton, all 

 express opinions favourable to tobacco smoking. 



CHAPTER III . . . 29 



THE HOME OF THE INDIAN WEED 



Columbus secures Queen Isabel's good-will and help — Over- 

 comes all difficulties and sets sail in three small vessels 

 from Palos on his great enterprise westward — Mutiny 

 suppressed — San Salvador reached after three months' 

 toil — The officers land — Natives friendly — Two captured 

 and brought on board the Santa Maria — A gladsome 

 sight meets their eyes — Cuba reached ; the most beautiful 

 island ever beheld — Clothed with perennial verdure — 

 Two of the crew sent to explore — Natives discovered 

 smoking fire-brands — They conceive a passion for 

 smoking — Columbus collects rarities to take with him 

 to Spain — Reports to the king and his consort the 

 achievement of his project — Is received with honour and 

 made high admiral of a new and powerful fleet with 

 which he returns to the West Indies — Gonzalo Oviedo, 

 Inspector-general of the newly discovered country — Fra 

 Ramono Pane sends Peter Martyr the first written account 

 of tobacco and native method of using it— Snuff-taking in 

 France — The origin of the name tobacco — Red Indian's 

 use of the weed — Oviedo dislikes tobacco — The dis- 



