of exceptional strength misleads and encourages others to indulge.

HYDE CLARKE.
October 14, 1882.




MR. WILKIE COLLINS.


When I am ill (I am suffering from gout at this very moment) tobacco
is the best friend that my irritable nerves possess. When I am well,
but exhausted for the time by a hard day's work, tobacco nerves and
composes me. There is my evidence in two words. When a man allows
himself to become a glutton in the matter of smoking tobacco, he
suffers for it; and if he becomes a glutton in the matter of eating
meat, he just as certainly suffers in another way. When I read learned
attacks on the practice of smoking, I feel indebted to the writer--he
adds largely to the relish of my cigar.

WILKIE COLONS.
February 10, 1882.




MR. MONCURE D. CONWAY, M. A.