" character " ; all revealing, not only the taste for tobacco, 

 but the love of art, however rude in form, and giving in 

 fact, the true life of the Red Indian tribes. From the north 

 to the south of the two Americas, similar examples are 

 shown ; from the pipes made of mammoth tusk, among the 

 Samoyeds, where only driftwood is found, and where bone 

 only will stand fire, and from the whalebone pipes from Sitka 

 and Greenland, down to the medicine-pipes of Paraguay, and 

 the tinder-boxes made of the tooth of a tiger and the tail of 

 an armadillo, every variety of American pipe is shown. 

 From Vancouver's Island, some most original pipes have 

 come — flat dark slaty stone, carved in Mexican style, and 

 some of wood, and some of bone also, while Sitka sends two 

 quaint Noah's-ark-like-looking pipes, with a rude house on 

 each, the chimney of which forms the bowl of the pipe, the 

 stem the keel of the boat, and Noah himself seems to hold 

 the helm, in most grotesque style — all made from bones of 

 whales. Central America furnishes strange old pipes — many 

 were in the collection of the unhappy Emperor Maximilian — 

 and curiously illustrating Mexican life and art. Far south, 

 too, in the South Pacific, the New Hebrides group forwards 

 from Solomon's Island some remarkable bamboo pipes and 

 boxes, ornamented in curious style, in which smoking and 

 chunam and betel chewing amuse the barbarous natives of 

 those distant isles. 



One large class of articles shown must be passed over 

 with only a word of praise. The hundreds of snuff-boxes in 

 every variety of material and style will interest all. They 

 include iron and steel, and metals inlaid with gold and silver, 

 pearl boxes, damascened work, Roman and Florentine 

 mosaic, agate, jade, onyx, fossil wood, birch bark, porphyry, 

 enamel, lava, repoussi, relievo, &c. ; while the ancient snuff- 

 graters— the rapp'es of the seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries — are marvellous examples of splendid carvings in 

 ivory and wood, when snuff was ground by the taker, and 

 was scarce and dear. 



Such a collection, in a town like Birmingham, or any 

 other town engaged in ornamental manufactures in metal, 

 may be viewed apart altogether from the purposes for which 

 the various objects are used, and as illustrating every style 



