St. Nicotine Of The Peace Pipe
Publisher: London : G. Routledge; New York : E. P. Dutton
Published: 1909
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: INTRODUCTORY v; title: An indulgence which promotes sociality, mirth, and day — dreams — Men hold to the weed regardless of opposition — St Nicotine's manifold virtues — The non-smoker's incapacity for enjoyment of smoking — Brings sleep to the sleepless — Opponents base their objection on principle — Prof. Huxley's experience — Havana cigar the ideal smoke — Acknowledgments to Editors and H.M. Customs.; title: A SYMPOSIUM; title: CHAPTER I 1; title: Part I; title: Tobacco smoking thought much of in Elizabeth's reign — Drawing the smoke into the lungs and ejecting it through the nostrils provokes hilarity in the city — Sir John Beaumont's Metamorphosis of Tobacco — Conceives the idea of a Parliament of the immortals to determine upon the composition of tobacco — Drayton on Beaumont's early death — Jupiter calls a council to consider the odic essence which has calmed his anger — England's great smokers from Raleigh to Dr. Parr give an account of their experiences.; title: SYMPOSIUM; title: CHAPTER II 15; title: Part II; title: Carlyle as a persistent preacher of the gospel of silence with his pipe — Frederick the Great's Tobacco Parliament — Carlyle's early experience in smoking and his first pinch of snuff — Charles Lamb and his associates over the pipe — Bismarck's Bund story — Divergent French views on the use of tobacco — Robert Hall, Spurgeon, Capt. Marryat, Fairholt, Inglis, Thackeray, .and Bulwer Lytton, all express opinions favourable to tobacco smoking.; title: CHAPTER III 29; title: THE HOME OF THE INDIAN WEED; title: Columbus secures Queen Isabel's good-will and help — Overcomes all difficulties and sets sail in three small vessels from Palos on his great enterprise westward — Mutiny suppressed — San Salvador reached after three months' toil — The officers land — Natives friendly — Two captured and brought on board the Santa Maria — A gladsome sight meets their eyes — Cuba reached ; the most beautiful island ever beheld — Clothed with perennial verdure — Two of the crew sent to explore — Natives discovered smoking fire-brands — They conceive a passion for smoking — Columbus collects rarities to take with him to Spain — Reports to the king and his consort the achievement of his project — Is received with honour and made high admiral of a new and powerful fleet with which he returns to the West Indies — Gonzalo Oviedo, Inspector-general of the newly discovered country — Fra Ramono Pane sends Peter Martyr the first written account of tobacco and native method of using it — Snuff-taking in France — The origin of the name tobacco — Red Indian's use of the weed — Oviedo dislikes tobacco — The discovery of South America — The Aztecs of Mexico — The Italian traveller Renaoni describes the plant and its uses among the natives  — His strong aversion to it — The origin of the plant related by the chief of the Susquehanna tribe; title: CHAPTER IV 47; title: TOBACCO IN RELATION TO HEALTH AND CHARACTER; title: The Chancellor of the Exchequer on the consumption of tobacco — His condemnation of the smoking habit by those who have enough to eat — Board of Trade returns — Statistics on the past and present rate of consumption per head of population in England and other countries — The quantity of tobacco consumed compared with the average consumption of wheat and the money value of each — The use made of cast-away cigar-ends — The opinions of Michael Drayton and Robert Burton — Case against youths smoking — The Cuban leaf — The effects of smoking on the character of the Turks — Mr. E. W. Lane on the Oriental method of smoking — Clarendon's views on tobacco's influence in diplomacy — The three kinds of tobacco used in commerce — Botanical description — The chemist's account of the composition of the weed — Shakespeare's 'hebenon' — SirB. W. Richardson's experiments with the smoke of tobacco — Tobacco innoxious compared with alcohol — Prof. Johnston's experiments and observations — Observed effects oh German thinkers — Pre-eminent among great smokers stand Hobbes, Newton, Parr, Aldrich, Hall, Carlyle and Tennyson — Experience the true guide.; title: CHAPTER V 73; title: THE USE AND ABUSE OF TOBACCO; title: Differences of temperament interfere with general enjoyment of the weed — Ground upon which all can agree — Its germicidal action demonstrated in laboratory experiments — Faith of oar forefathers in tobacco's all-healing properties — Particularly as a destroyer of insect Hie on plants and animals — Liebaalt's accoant of Nioot's introduction of tobacco into France and experiments on old sores and wounds — Fame of throughout Portugal, France — Catherine de Medici plants seeds of in her garden — George Buchanan's distrust of anything which bears her name — Italy's first instalment of the weed received from Spain — Spenser in the Faerie Queene speaks of 'divine tobacco ' — William Lyly calls it the 'holy herb nicotian' — Henry Battes on tobacco as a dietetic — Dr. Gardiner describes its use in medicine — Harleian Miscellany on tobacco — Dr. Thorius*s Hymnus Tabac — - Pepys' experience with tobacco — Dr. Willis on its prophylactic effects in the plague of 1666 — Dr. Diemerbroech finds it kills contagion during plague in Holland 1635-6 — Coleridge in Cologne — Medical profession's changed attitude towards tobacco — Mr. Solly, of St. Thomas's Hospital, proclaims a crusade against smoking — Dr. Murray at a later date speaks highly in its favour from army experience — Private McCarthy's quiet pipe in the hospital yard — Soldiers' experiences in South Africa — Government's changing practices in regard to contraband tobacco — Soldiers sent out in troop-ships have first claim.; title: ON THE ANTIQUITY OF TOBACCO-SMOKING; title: The beginnings of history — Ancestor worship — Man's instinctive craving for narcotics and stimulants — Ancient historic allusions to smoking or burning of vegetable substances — Lieut Walpole's account of an Arabic MS. which came into his hands at Mosul — Nimrod a tobacco-smoker — Assyrian cylinders in the British Museum — Noah a smoker, a Greek Church tradition — The Moslem sage and the origin of the tobacco plant — Eulia Effendi's story of a tobacco pipe found in an old wall — Tobacco unknown in Turkey before 1610 — Dr. Yates mistakes an Egyptian painting representing glass-blowers for a smoking party — Both Greeks and Romans inhaled fumes of tussilago through a reed or pipe for the cure of coughs and difficult breathing — Abbe Cocket and Dr. Bruce on old clay pipes found in Normandy and among ruins in Britain — Clay pipes found in Scotland and Ireland — Legendary lore respecting their origin and use — The weed and the Portuguese in India and Java — Pallas and Meyen on the plant in India and China — The Lasarists, Gabet and Hue, in Tartary and Thibet — The cultivation and use of tobacco in China — The supposed antiquity of the habit among the Chinese, who in their prehistoric migrations may have carried seeds of the plant to America.; title: CHAPTER VII 117; title: A GLIMPSE OF SOCIAL LIFE IN JAPAN. AS DISCLOSED BY THE WEED; title: The Japanese — Marco Polo's mention of Japan and its people — Pinto, Portugal's pioneer in eastern seas — Lands at Nagasaki in 1545 — Friendly reception — News of the event reaches Manila and Goa — Spanish merchant vessels with Francis Xavier speedily arrived at Bungo — Warm welcome — Tobacco and smoking, a new revelation to these primitive people — Good work done by Xavier and his coadjutors among the sick and needy — The Shogun, Iyeyasu, permits free intercourse and unrestricted trade — Spaniards and Portuguese accused of overreaching practices, and of draining the country of its gold — Jesuits and Friars swarm in Japan and bring upon themselves disgrace and ultimate expulsion — William Adams the first Englishman to set foot in Japan — His rapid rise in favour and fortune — The arrival of Dutch merchantmen — Helped by Adams to secure a trade basis at Firando — Adams desires to return home, but is put off from time to time — He writes letters to England telling of himself, and inviting London merchants to trade with Japan — They do so, and vessels laden with merchandise are despatched under the command of Captain Saris, who bears a letter from King James to the Emperor of Japan, resulting in England's first commercial treaty with that country — Adams dies in Japan after twenty years' residence, loved and honoured by all. An Edict against smoking falls into abeyance — Family records of smoking in 1605-7 — Excellent properties of tobacco-smoking enumerated by an old writer — Objections to its use — The theft of the golden pipe — Smoking now universal in Japan — An 'At Home' — Men's revolt against women's authority as to when and where to smoke — Primitive habits among the peasantry — Cultivation and revenue — Sir Earnest Satow statistics — Reflections.; title: CHAPTER VIII; title: STRAY LEAVES FROM THE INDIAN WEED; title: The late Poet Laureate's (Tennyson) love of tobacco — smoking — Science detects poisonous elements in the exotic — The philosophy of smoking — The only thing in life that fumes without fretting and assuages the fretful — The bachelor's love of seclusion with his pipe — Napoleon's first and last attempt at smoking — A distraught youth and an Oriental sage, an eastern view of the virtue of the weed — Raleigh and the New World — His expedition to explore the coast of the El Dorado and win renown for England and his idolized Queen Bess — England's first smokers — Hawkins, not Raleigh, the first to bring tobacco to this country — Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth — The wager as to the weight of the smoke exhaled from a pipeful of tobacco — King James's 'Counterblaste to Tobacco' — Its home cultivation and manufacture — Ben Jonson's 'Alchemist' — 'Bartholomew Faire' — Dr. Barclay on sophistication of tobacco — Old Rome smoked coltsfoot and leaves of the lettuce — Paper warfare over the virtues or vices of the Indian weed. — Joshua Sylvester sends a 'volley of holy shot' against the 'idolatrous weed' — Samuel Rowland's 'Knave of Clubbs,' a humorous satire on tobacco-smoking — Eastern potentates' treatment of smokers of the Frankish novelty — Russian atrocities inflicted on users of the weed — Foreign Governments begin to see in it an easy means of augmenting revenue — Peter the Great invites English tobacco merchants to Moscow in order to establish a factory there for the manufacture of tobacco — Queen Anne in Council disapproves of the scheme, and orders our Envoy to destroy the works and return the workmen to their homes.; title: CHAPTER IX 169; title: SOCIAL GOSSIP ABOUT THE WEED; title: George Wither's song on tobacco-smoking — Undergoes numerous alterations by later writers — Mr. Chappell, through Mr. Payne Collier, traces the original song to Wither — Bishop Fletcher succumbs to over-indulgence in the pipe — Rev. W. Bredon resorts to the hemp cut off the ends of the church bell -ropes as a substitute for tobacco — Raleigh carries the novelty to Court and makes smoking popular — Merriment in the city over the 'tobacconists' — Ben Jonson's mention of smoking — 'Every Man out of his Humour' — 'The Gipsies Metamorphosed' — 'Bartholomew Faire' — Dekker's 'Gull's Horn Book' — His 'Satiromastix' — Women smokers — The daughters of Louis XIV. smoke in their private apartments — England's paper warfare over the merits or demerits of the weed — Joshua Sylvester supports the King's 'Counterblaste' — Heavy duty on tobacco and its ruinous cost to the consumer — Peter Campbell's will — Sir Edwin Sandys on the sum paid for tobacco received from Spain — Dr. Everard on the 'Wonderful Vertues of Tobacco taken in a Pipe' — Dr. Barclay's Nepenthes — De Rochefort tells of smoking in rural England — Mentions the case of a Spaniard using a bit of the cable cad in lien of tobacco — Of smoking in bed — Mission's remarks abort the effects of tobacco on Englishmen — His verses in praise of smoking — Dr. Aldrich, Dean of Chrtstchurch, Oxford — His song on tobacco, to be smoked while singing — His higher claims to admiration.; title: CHAPTER X; title: THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY AND SMOKING PIPES; title: Allows kinds and sources of supply — Qualities due to climate, soil or other causes — Natural qualities determine destination — Strong kinds find favour in North America, mild in Europe — Cuba's leaf tidiest in excellences desired by. smokers — Cuba's make-up the model for the rest of the tobacco producing world — The effect of the McKinley tariff on Cuban cigar manufacture — The highly prized and priced Havana legitimas — Small area over which the Havana plant is grown — Harvesting and curing operations in Florida — Packing of bales for exportation — Bonded warehousing accommodation and its regulations — Different kinds of cigars suited to different seasons and climates — Manila cheroots, their kinds and manufacture — Government monopoly and its removal — Illicit growth of the plant by mountaineers — Number of employees, their work and wages — Cheroots used in lieu of coin — Various kinds of tobacco offered to the consumer — Invisible life infests tobacco leaves — Tobacco culture prohibited in England except in Physic Gardens — Removed in 1886 — Failure of English cultivation — Manufacture of cigars — Inequality of Customs duty — Historical view of tobacco pipes- Clay pipes — Meerschaum, its origin and manufacture — Briar-root and other materials used for pipes.; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Tobacco Plant frontispiece face p.; title: Sir Walter Raleigh " 6; title: Departure of Columbus (from a rare old painter) " 22; title: Queen Elizabeth 132; title: A Chinese Pipe 112; title: Indian Pipe—Heads found in Mound City, Ohio 113; title: A Japanese Pipe 129; title: Due de Sully 153; title: Early Seventeenth-century Smokers 173