202 TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



gaily coloured in green and gold. A rim of metal with 

 a loop, allows a silk cord to secure it to the stem. 



In the pages of Irving' s Knickerbocker, and Hood's 

 Up the Rhine, are many humorous notes of the smoke- 

 loving Hollanders and Germans. They are generally 

 looked upon as pleasant exaggerations; though they 

 are solemn facts. So necessary is the pipe, that Hood 

 says " I should be loth to trust a sentimental Prussian 

 with himself, with his pipe out, and an empty tobacco- 

 bag ; " and he adds, iC I can quite believe the story of a 

 Prussian doctor, who recommended to a consumptive 

 countryman to smoke Virginia tobacco, just as an 

 English Physician in the like case, would advise a 

 change of air." There is a sentimentalism in the pipe 

 also, and Schwind's etchings already alluded to, depict 

 many " touching scenes," with pipe and cigar ; such as 

 the exchange of each made by parting friends; the 

 associations connected with an old pipe, &c. He has 

 also depicted the young Fraulein busily employed in 

 embroidering a tobacco bag for her lover, a Very com- 

 mon gift of affection from ladies, who are as " well 

 seasoned " to tobacco in Germany as Hood has assured 

 us that they are, in the capital tale he narrates on that 

 subject in the book just quoted. 



Noel Humphreys' clever descriptive letter-press to 

 Cook's Views in Rome contains an amusing analysation 

 of the German smokers among the artists there, " and 

 their never idle pipe, which is the medium through 

 which a German introduces the external air to his 

 breathing apparatus." At the Cafe Greco, the celebra- 



