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TOBACCO : its History and Associations ;...
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been written from the materials , but the author ' s ¦ a = ti i * a onarantee for his veracity , lhe Cok Jseto / vk a frontispiece , showing the ^ nlr of fom-seamen upon a p arty of sepoys at Amo ^ nd indicates t £ spirit of the whole enterpi'ise . .. - —•
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Wo . 493 . S EPX . S . 18 MU THE LEA DEB , 1015
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,, nftVFRBS OF ALL NATIONS , COMPARED , EXrB ? ffiD ,. ATO ILLUSTRATED , liy Walter Iv . Kelly . —W . Kent and Go . Kn siibiect could be more charming than this , and , m competent hands , capable of being turned to rc ^ er profit . But it is not sufficient to make a try Slogue of proverbs ; -any collection , to be useful should be accompanied with the means of ^ mparison , exp lanation , and illustration . Mr . Sly ? convinced of this , has accordingly compared , expSned , and illustrated all the proverbs winch his small volume ( would it were thrice its size !) has been made to include . Some of these proverbs have , we believe , already mneared in " The National Magazine ; and at the foot of the ainusing columns of that elegant periodical , formed precious . morceaux that were excee'lhW y welcome , as stray gifts found m unexn-ctc-r places . But the collection before us extends far beyond the number thus scattered at wide intervals through hundreds of pages . The ¦ b'sis of it , we are told by the author , is British ; and the arrangement according to their import and infinity , which renders them very readable and sometimes very entertaining . Translations of their princioal equivalents in other languages are "Touped under each ; and ,, by such means , of the proverbs are formed natural families , the several members of which acquire increased significance iroiu the mutual , light they reflect . : ¦ " A source of lively interest is thus opened , " says the author , " for the -reader , who is thus enabled to observe the manifold diversities of form which the same thought , assumes * as expressed in different times and by many distinct races of men ; to trace the unity in variety which pervades the oldest and most universal monuments of opinion and sentiment among mankind ; and to verify for himself the truth of Lord Bacon s well-known remark ,- that ' the genius , wit , and spirit of a nation are discovered m its proverbs . ' " Touching as they do upon so wide a range of human concerns , proverbs are necessarily associated with written literature . Sometimes they are created by it ; much oftener they are woven into its texture . Personal anecdotes tarn upon them in many instances ; and not unfrequently they have figured in national history , or have helped to preserve the memory of events , manners , usages , and ideas , some of which have left little other record of their existence From the wealth of illustration thus inviting my hand I have sought to gather whatever might elucidate and enliven my subject without overlaying it . In this way I hope to have overcome the general objection alleged by Isaac Disraeli against collections of proverbs , on the ground of their ' unreadableness . It is true , as ho says , that ' taking in succession a multitude of insulated proverbs , their slippery nature resists all hopo of retaining one in a hundred ; but this remark , I venture to believe , does not apply to tho present collection , in which proverbs are not insulated , but presented in orderly , coherent groups , and accompanied with appropriate accessories , so as to flit them for being considered with some continuity of thought . " These are , no doubt , very sensible remarks . Let us now see how the collector has carried out his idea . For this purpose , take a specimen or two :- — Lovo is Wind . Blind to all imperfections in tho buloved object ; . blind also to everything around it ^ rto facts , consequences , and prudential considerations . " I ' coplo in lovo think that other people ' s oyos are out ( Spanish ) . * It is hard to hoop flax from the ( owe [ flro ~ \ . —Scotch : "Man is firo , woman tow , and tho devil comos and blows" ( Hnanlsh ) . f Glasses and lassos ( tro bruchio [ brittle ] warett . —( tjcotch . A pretty (/ irl and a tattered aoicn arc mtru to Jlnd some hook in tha way . Italy appears to bo tho original country of this provorb , though it is popularly current in Ulster . "A handsome woman and a pinked or slashed garment" arc the things mentioned in tho Italian
proverb . * lhe French form f corresponds with tfte Irish . Where love fails we espy all faults . Faults are thick tohere love is thin . —Webb / Hot love is soon cold . Love me little love me long . Love of lads and fire of chats are soon in and soon out . —Derbyshire . Chats , i . e ., chips . Lads' love ' s a bush of broom , hot a while and soon clone . —Cheshire . Love is never without jealousy . " He that is riot jealous is not in love , " says St . Augustin ; % but that depends not only upon the disposition of the lover , but upon the point arrived at in the history of his love . Doubts and fears are excusable in one who has not yet had assurance that his passion is returned , but afterwards " Love expels jealousy " ( French ) , § or , at least , it ought to do so . " Love demands faith , and faith steadfastness" ( Italian ) ;|| but too often "Love gives for " uerdon jealous }' and broken faith " ( Italian ) . ^ It fs an Italian woman ' s belief that " It is better to have a husband without love than with jealousy . ** No folly to being in love . " To love and to be wise is impossible" ( Spanish ) ; ff or as an antique French proverb says , the two things have not the same abode . Jt This is the creed of those who . have not themselves been lovers . As Calderoh sings , in lines admirably rendered by Mr . Fitzgerald , — ' Ho who far off beholds another dancing , . Kven one who ' dances best , and all the time Hears not the music-that he dances to , Thfuks him a madman , apprehending not The law which moves his else eccentric action ; Ho he that ' s in himself insensible Of . love ' s sweet-influence , misjudges huu AVlio moves according- to love ' s-melody . ; And knowing not that all these sighs and tears , Kjaculations and impatiences , Are necessary changes of a measure "Which the divine musician plays , may call ..- The lover crazy , which ho would not do , l > id ho within his own heart hear the tune JL'lay'd by the- £ reat musician ot . tho world . One quality is common to most proverbs—ihU nature . This comes of their mostly taking the < ide of caution and prudence . They seldom soar to the level of the wisdom that is higher than either Such wisdom , in fact ,: cannot be substituted by maxims;—it is a habit of soul that grows with it , like the fur on an animal .
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Tobacco : Its History And Associations ;...
TOBACCO : its History and Associations ; including- an Account of the riant , and its Manufacture ; with its Modes of Use in all Ages and Countries . By 1 \ W . FairUolt , F . S . A . With 100 Illustrations by the Author . —Chapman and Hall . The respectable antiquary who is responsible for this work was born in a tobacco warehouse , where his father worked , and his earliest recollections " are of rolling in the tobacco-leaf as country children would roll in n hay-field , and playing at hide and seek in the empty barrels . Here are rare qualifications for an historian of tobacco . It is perhaps not generally known that tobacco was once extensively cultivated in the Northridinw of Yorkshire , us also in Scotland ; but the growth was made illegal in England ; but it continued to be grown in Ireland , particularly in the county of Wexford . Holland carries on a large trade in its growth ; and it is cultivated also in France and Germany . But European tobacco is less powerful in flavour than American . Gorman tobacco may be smoked to an extent which would be dangerous if the New World tobacco wore used . This word " dangerous" suggests an inquiry whether the use of tobacco is injurious— -a question on which doctors eminently disagree , lhe weed , however , gained its curly reputation on sanitary "rounds . At is good for those of sanguine temperaments . The author quotes his lathers example in proof of its liarmlessness : *—" The author ' s father diod at the ago of soventytwo : lie had been twelve hours a day in a tobiiccomanufactory for nearly fifty years » and ho both smoked and chewed whilo busy in the labours of tho workshop , sometimes amid a dense cloud ot steam from drying tho damp tobacco over tho stoves ; ami
B ¦ his health and appetite were perfect to the day of Ids death ; he was a model of muscular and stomachic energy ; in which his son , who neither smokes , snuffs , nor chews , by no means rivals him or does him credit , " We must confess that the early records bear witness to the abuse of the herb . Smoking in excess was the practice of the Indians , unless the historians of the time exaggerate matters . The natives , according to one , considered tobacco as a o-ift from the Great Spirit for their special enjoyment ; one that the Great Spirit himself also indulges in . The pipe was therefore sacred , and smoking partook of the character of a moral , if not a religious , act . _ ' . . . Much interesting matter is contained in an account of the different devices for pipes found in the ruins of ancient cities , and which indicate an unexpected progress in the arts . Animals and birds arc executed with remarkable precision . T he literary associations of tobacco are also amusing . References , and witty ones , too , are to be found in our old comedies . Thus in Chapman s " AH Fooles" ( 1605 ) , Dariotto says : — " My boy once lio-hted a pipe of cane tobacco with a piece of a vfle ballad , and I'll sweare I bad a singing in my head a whole week after . " " Paul Ilentzner , who visited England in 159 S , notes the constant custom of smoking at all public places : he visited the Bear Garden in Southward ,, and says : — ' At these spectacles , and everywhere else the English are constantly smoking tobacco , and in this manner : They have pipes on purpose , made of clay , into the farther end of which they put the herb , so dry that it may be rubbed into powder , and putting fire to it , they draw thesmoak into their mouths , which they puff out again , through their nostrils , like funnels , along with it plenty ot phlegm and denuxion from the head . ' This was m fact one of the chief ' medical virtues' for which the herb was professedly talc en . " " The prevalence of tobacco-smoking on the stage , where gallants were accommodated with stools to sit during the play at an increased charge , is alluded to by Cokes in Ben Jonson ' s admirable play , Bartholomew Tair . He has gone into a booth to see a puppet-play , and asks of the master , 'Ha you none of your pretty impudent boys , now , to bnrigstooles , fill tobacco , fetch ale , and beg money as they have at other houses ? ' The inconvenience occasionally felt by the female part of the audience is demonstrated by the Grocer ' s wife in Beaumont and Fletchers Knight of the Burning Pestle , who taking her . seat on the stage , exclaims , ' Fie ! this stinking tobacco kils men ; would there were none in England : now I pray , gentlemen , what good does this stinking tobacco ?—doe you nothing ?—I warrant you make chimnies of your faces ! ' * Collier , in his Annals of the Stage , notest that one of the boy-actors in the induction to Cynthia ' s Revels , imitating a gallant supposed to be sitting on the stage , speaks of having his ' three sorts of tobacco in his pocket , and his light by him . ' Pekker in 1 G 0 U telb his gallant to get his match lighted ; ' and in the Scornful Lady C 161 C ) Captains of gally-foists arc ridiculed , who only ' wear swords to reach fire at a play , tor the purpose of lighting their pipes . llutlmi , in his Follies Anatomie ( 1 GH ) , speaks of tho custom oi taking tobacco at theatres ( instancing the Globe- — Shakespeare ' s theatre ) : — » , tlio crowded ( ' (" ra 1 - Must needs bo graced with you and your | muv , Hwourv l ' or a place with ouch con tro Hi I if ! < uol < . And bind your hackney servant lor a Hlo .-I . ' . " Tobacco was even sold at the l ^ y- **™* '* " * ' in JJarthohmew Fair , Ben Jonson ^ "K ^ who accommodate gentlemen with tobacco at oui ^ Ttlsfhowever , a remarkable fact tlmt no mention of tobuccoin made in the Shakospcnan driuj uw , ^^^ s ^ f ^ rrs ^ ^ n ^ f ^ ^^ y ^^ ' oen hal ' shakHpcre . shared in tho 5 «» l »»^ thJJ ¦ wouhl ho nn interesting question to ckoule whothu h \? lX ^ i ^ turo of tobacco ; the reader who ivi * hvM . oj > unmo
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1859, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03091859/page/19/
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