INTRODUCTION 



past, they have been scattered through so 

 many publications, that it makes their 

 accessibility in this volume welcome. In 

 addition to this, many aspects and con- 

 ditions curiously related to the above 

 have since arisen as to render their embodi- 

 ment by contemporaries in this book, if not 

 original, at least fresh in treatment and 

 in accord with the times. 



The other chapters, treating as they 

 do of tobacco topics, of which little has 

 been publicly known, but which have, 

 nevertheless, a bearing upon the whole, 

 it is felt will be found readable and in- 

 forming. 



The Poetry of Smoke, contained in this 

 volume, has been selected with great care, 

 and, so far as can be found, has not to 

 any degree ever appeared between perma- 

 nent covers before, and very little of it 

 is now " in print " in any current work. 



That it deserves as high a place as the 



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