LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Tobacco Plant[frontispiece]
face p.
Sir Walter Raleigh”[6]
Departure of Columbus (from a rare old painter)”[22]
Queen Elizabeth”[132]
A Chinese Pipe[112]
Indian Pipe—Heads found in Mound City, Ohio[113]
A Japanese Pipe[129]
Duc de Sully[153]
Early Seventeenth-century Smokers[173]

ST NICOTINE

SYMPOSIUM
CHAPTER I

Part I

Let me adore with my thrice happy pen

The sweet and sole delight of mortal men;

The cornucopia of all earthly pleasure,