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as a support to tlie whole. The second is a still more 

 ingenious design, admirably adapted to its purpose, 

 without the least violation of natural arrangement. 

 Two monks in a railed garden, well stocked with 

 cabbages, are employed in their sacred duties. The 

 one reads in the sunshine ; the other enters the little 

 chapel constructed principally from the stems of trees. 

 The deep roof forms a capital cover for the pipe, 

 beneath the eaves is a pigeon house ; the whole scene 

 is a pleasant picture of seclusion, well fitted to the 

 contemplation of the thoughtful smoker — and few 

 smokers are other than thoughtful men. 



" The Germans have perhaps experimented more 

 profoundly in pipes than any other European people. 

 They long used a beautiful pipe, carved by the herds- 

 men and peasants of the Black Forest from the close- 

 grained and gnarled root of the dwarf-oak. The wood 

 is hard enough to resist the action of the fire, becom- 

 ing but slightly charred by years of use. The carvings 

 represented sylvan scenes — boar-hunts, rencontres with 

 wolves, sleigh- driving, fowling, and the exploits of 

 robbers. Not unfrequently the subject was an illustra- 

 tion of ancient German literature, as a scene from the 

 story of Reynard the Fox — or of the works of Goethe 

 or Schiller, in which Karl, or Faust, or the Satanic 

 leer of Mephistopheles, was sure to figure." * 



Wooden pipes of this kind have been introduced in 

 England ; and pipes made of briar root are now 

 common in our shops, but expensive, the bowls costing 



* Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. 



