FRENCH PIPES. 



189 



A negro carrying a basket affords a very simple and 

 pleasing motif for one design from Fiolet's estab- 

 lishment; and appears to have originated 

 in a desire to give the smoker a share in 

 spreading the universal popularity of the 

 American novel by Mrs. Beecher Stowe 

 ■ — Uncle Toms Cabin — whose principal 

 character is thus impersonated at his 

 labour. We end our notice of French 

 clay pipes (of which there are more than 

 200 varieties), by recording the recent 

 introduction of those which are formed 

 from a warm-tinted modelling clay, and 

 are worked upon by hand, after being 

 roughly turned from the mould ; they 

 generally are extremely vigorous and 

 artistic. One representing an old birch 

 broom is so good for its truthful charac- 

 ter and fitness of form for the smoker's 

 use, that we engrave it for our final ex- 

 ample. These pipes, though involving manual labour 



of a superior kind, are to be purchased for sixpence 

 each in London.* 



* It is calculated that more that 5000 persons are employed in 

 pipe manufacture of France. 



