there has been no more devoted
smoker than Mr. Lowell, as his recently published letters testify.
Three of the most delightful poems in praise of smoking are his, and
with Mr. Aldrich's charming "Latakia" are the gems of the collection.
The compiler desires to express his grateful acknowledgments to
friends who have permitted him to use their work and have otherwise
aided him from time to time; and to the many unknown authors whose
poems are here gathered, and whom it was quite impossible to reach;
and to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Company, Harper & Brothers, The
Bowen-Merrill Company, and the publishers of "Outlook," for their
gracious permission to include copyrighted poems.

J.K.

BOSTON, July, 1894.

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CONTENTS.

A.

PAGE
Acrostic _J.H._ 44
Ad Nicotina _E.N.S._ 118
Another Match _Cope's Tobacco Plant_ 45
Ashes _De Witt Sterry_ 47

B.

Bachelor's Invocation, A _Pall Mall Gazette_ 182
Bachelor's Views, A _Tom Hall_ 177
Bachelor's Soliloquy _Cigar and Tobacco World_ 95
Ballad of the Pipe, The _Hermann Rave_ 69
Ballade of Tobacco, The _Brander Matthews_ 54
Betrothed, The _Rudyard Kipling_ 108
Brief Puff of Smoke, A _Selim_ 19

C.

Cannon Song _H.P. Peck_ 85
Chibouque _Francis S. Saltus_ 173
Choosing a wife by a Pipe of Tobacco _Gentleman's Magazine_
48
Cigar, The _Thomas Hood_ 153
Cigarette Rings _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 147
Cigars and Beer _George Arnold_ 166
Clouds _Bauernfeld_ 52
Confession of a Cigar Smoker _Anon._ 158

D.

Discovery of Tobacco _Cigar and Tobacco World_ 64
Dreamer's Pipe, The _New Orleans Times Democrat_ 96
Duet, The _Ella Wheeler Wilcox_ 174

E.

Edifying Reflections of a Tobacco Smoker _Translated from the
German_ 58
Effusion by a Cigar Smoker _Horace Smith_ 167
Encomium on Tobacco, An _Anon._ 36
Epitaph _Anon._ 17

F.

Farewell to Tobacco, A _Charles Lamb_ 100
Farmer's Pipe, The _George Cooper_ 7
Forsaken of all comforts _Sir Robert Ayton_ 140
Free Puff, A _Arthur Irving Gray_ 121
Friend of my youth _Anon._ 1