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fashioned of every practicable material, and upon which 

 unwearied labour and exquisite taste have been be- 

 stowed, are to be met with in the stores of the Parisian 

 dealers ; and yet it is a rare thing to see in a 

 Parisian's mouth anything more costly than the 

 simple nine-inch pipe of soft porous clay, which, with its 

 case, fitting it almost as closely as the mould in which 

 it was pressed, may be bought for twenty-five sous. 

 The magnificent pipes of the French market are got 

 up for the delectation of the foreigners with whom 

 the capital abounds, and for the pipe-collector, a 

 being who rides a hobby liable to become franticly 

 extravagant. 



An illustrated volume might easily be composed on 

 the subject of French and German pipes, so extensive 

 is the variety, and sometimes the beauty, of the form 

 and design they exhibit. Ingenuity, so far from 

 exhausting itself, absolutely seems to revel over the 

 production of new and uncommon forms. Not only 

 are they beautiful in design and lavish in enrichment, 

 but they occasionally are exceedingly quaint and gro- 

 tesque ; at times they exhibit the features of some 

 popular personage, at other times they picture some 

 great event. Throughout the two last Eevolutions in 

 France, the cheap clay pipe embodied the struggles of 

 the people for their liberty ; honoured those who fell 

 in its defence, or who triumphed as leaders in the 

 fray. One of the best of these designs is exhibi- 

 ted in our cut. A figure of Liberty has fallen on the 

 tricolor flag; she holds a wreath of immortelles in 



