EARLY LITERATURE OF TOBACCO 



LOOKING backward over the ages and 

 pages of history, the student and enthusi- 

 ast is always surprised and delighted at 

 the mine of matter on subjects dealing 

 with the delights of the senses, the luxuries 

 of the mind, and the comforts of the body. 



Painters and poets have pictured and 

 sung of the beauty, sublimity, and nobility 

 of nature in all her varying moods. Apart, 

 from this, every fruit of the soil in the 

 scheme of creation has been given its 

 proper setting in song and story and writ- 

 ten record. 



Among all the offerings of the earth, 

 however, no leaf, plant, berry, bean, flower, 



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