hinges, and
it was this 'going out of fashion' that Jonson alluded to in
1774.

[Illustration: Newton and his pipe.]

"We next find Tobacco rearing its head under the auspices of
Paley and Parr. Paley had one of the most orderly minds ever
given to man. A vein of shrewd and humorous sarcasm,
together with an under-current of quiet selfishness, made
him a very pleasant companion. 'I cannot afford to keep a
conscience any more than a carriage,' was worthy of Erasmus,
perhaps of Robelais. 'Our delight was,' said an old
Jonsonian to the writer, 'to get old Paley, on a cold
winter's night, to put up his legs, wrap them well up, stir
the fire, and fill him a long Dutch pipe; he would talk
away, sir, like a being of a higher sphere. He declined
any punch, but drank it up as fast as we replenished his
glass. He would smoke any given quantity of Tobacco, and
drink any _given_ quantity of punch.'

"Parr smoked ostentatiously and vainly, as he did
everything. He used only the finest Tobacco, half-filling
his pipe with salt. He wrote and read, and smoked and wrote,
rising early, and talking fustian. He was a sort of
miniature Brummagem Johnson. Except his preface to
_Bellendenus_, you might burn all he has written. His 'Life
of Fox' is beneath contempt. His letters are simply
laughable, especially his characters of contemporaries. He,
however, was an amiable and good-natured man, and had
sufficient humanity to regard dissent as an impediment to
his recognition of intellectual or moral worth. Parr was an
arrogant old coxcomb, who abused the respectful kindness he
received, and took his pipe into drawing-rooms. I pass over
the Duke of Bridgewater, because he was early crossed in
love by a most beautiful girl, could not bear the sight of a
flower even growing, and passed life in a pot-house with a
pipe, listening to Brindley, whose intellect and dialect
must have been alike incomprehensible to him.

"The cigar appeared about 1812; it received the countenance
of the Regent, who had hitherto confined himself to macobau
snuff, scented with lavender and the tonquin bean. Porson
smoked many bundles of cheroots, which nabobs began to
import. After 1815 the continental visits were resumed, and
the practice of smoking began steadily to in