H. TAINE.
March 28, 1882.




MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE.


I have been a smoker nearly all my life. Five years ago I found it
certainly was hurting me, causing my hand to shake and producing
somnolence. I gave it up for two years. A doctor told me I had smoked
too much (three large cigars daily). Two years since I took to it
again, and now smoke three small cigars (very small), and, so far as I
can tell, without any effect.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Feb. 11, 1882.




SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, M. A., LL. D., D. C. L., F. R. S.


The question of usefulness or the reverse of tobacco or alcohol is
one of health, and to be answered by medical men, if they can. It
seems to me that neither is of the slightest consequence as a
stimulus or help to intellectual efforts, but that either may be used
without harm or the reverse if in small enough quantities, so as not