George Redways Publications. 49 



i6tno, pp. xvi. and 148, Cloth extra^ 2s. 



Tobacco Talk and Smokers' 

 Gossip. 



AN AMUSING MISCELLANY OF FACT AND ANECDOTE RELATING 



TO THE " GREAT PLANT " IN ALL ITS FORMS AND 



USES, INCLUDING A SELECTION FROM 



NICOTIAN LITERATURE. 



CONTENTS: A Tobacco Parliament Napoleon's First Pipe A Dutch Poet and 

 Napoleon's Snuff- Box Frederick the Great as an Ass Too Small for Two A Smoking 

 Empress The Smoking Princesses An Incident on the G.W.R Raleigh's Tobacco Box 

 Bismarck's Last Cigar Bismarck's Cigar Story Moltke's Pound of Snuff Lord Brougham 

 as a Smoker Mazzini's Sang-froid as a Smoker Lord Clarendon as a Smoker Politics 

 and Snuff-Boxes Penn and Tobacco Tobacco and the Papacy The Snuff-Mull in the 

 Scotch Kirk Whateley as a Snuff-Taker The First Bishop who Smoked Pigs and 

 Smokers Jesuits' Snuff Kemble Pipes An Ingenious Smoker Anecdote of Dean 

 Aldrich Smoking to the Glory of God Professor Huxley on Smoking Blucher's Pipe- 

 Master Shakespeare and Tobacco Ben Jonson on Tobacco Lord Byron on Tobacco 

 Decamps and Horace Vernet Milton's Pipe Anecdote of Sir Isaac Newton Emersonand 

 Carlyle Paley and his Pipe Jules Sandeau on the Cigar The Pickwick of Fleet Street 

 The Obsequio of Havana The Social Pipe ( Thackeray) Triumph of Tobacco over Sack 

 and Ale The Smoking Philosopher Sam Slick on the Virtues of a Pipe Smoking in 1610 

 Bulwer-Lytton on Tobacco-Smoking Professor Sedgwick St Pierre on the Effect of 

 Tobacco Ode to Tobacco (C. S. CalverleyjTAzzt and Drink (Charles 



Meerschaum (O. IV, Holmes) Charles Kingsley at Eversley Robert Burns's Snuff-Box 

 Robinson Crusoe's Tobacco Guizot Victor Hugo Mr Buckle as a Smoker Carlyle on 

 Tobacco A Poet's Pipe {Baudelaire)^ Pipe of Tobacco The Headsman's Snuff-box 

 The Pipe and Snuff-box (Cowper) Anecdote of Charles Lamb Gibbon as a Snuff-Taker 

 "Charles Lamb as a Smoker Farewell to Tobacco {Chas. Lamb} The Power of Smoke 

 (Thackeray) Thackeray as a Smoker Dickens as a Smoker Chewing and Spitting in 

 America Tennyson as a Smoker A Smoker's Opinion of Venice Coleridge's First Pipe 



Richard Person Cruikshank and Tobacco Mr James Payn Mr Swinburne on 

 Raleigh The Anti-Tobacco Party "This Indian Weed " Dr Abernethy on Snuff-Taking 



Abernethy and a Smoking Patient Tobacco and the Plague "The Greatest Tobacco 

 Stopper in all England " Dr Richardson on Tobacco Advice to Smokers Some Strange 

 Smokers The Etymology of Tobacco The Snuff called "Irish Blackguard" A Snuff- 

 Maker's Sign Mr Sala's Cigar-Shop Death of the "Yard of Clay" A Prodigious 

 Smoker A Professor of Smoking Tobacco in Time of War Ages attained by Great 

 Smokers A Maiden's Wish " Those Dreadful Cigars " How to take a Pinch of Snuff 

 The Tobacco Plant Fate of an Early Smoker Adding Insult to Injury Tom Brown on 

 Smoking The Snuff-Taker Tobacco in North America National Characteristics 

 Smoking at School Carlyle on ''The Veracities "Children's Pipes The Uses of Cigar 

 Ash An Inveterate Smoker A Tough Yarn Some French Smokers Riddles for Smokers 

 Cigar Manufacturing in Havana. 



" One of the best books of gossip we have met for some time. ... It 

 is literally crammed full from beginning to end of its 148 pages with well- 

 selected anecdotes, poems, and excerpts from tobacco literature and history." 



Graphic. 



"The smoker should be grateful to the compilers of this pretty little 

 volume. . . . No SMOKER SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT, and anti-tobacconists 

 have only to turn over its leaves to be converted." Pall Mall Gazette. 



(t Something to please smokers ; and non-smokers may be interested in 

 tracing the effect of tobacco the fatal, fragrant herb on our literature." 

 Literary World. 



