As a Nation of Smokers The Germans have always carried the palm & do still & with them Smoke & Song were ever inseparable. Imagine a German Student without his Pipe, & his Corps Cap we should not know him. The Leading feature in German Pipes is decidedly The long Bowl of Porcelain generally adorned with some Beauty on the front of it in medallion form. The stems are of great lengths some four feet or so with flexible tubing leading up to the mouth piece. These may be considered House Pipes for travelling, naturally they are shorter. The Tobacco Bags are objects of great care & interest. [Illustration: GERMAN] NORTH EUROPE. The Island of “AMAGER” near Copenhagen has retained its costumes & customs so faithfully that we have confidence in the Pattern Pipes which are now still in use. The Long one. 4 ft 8 in is the House, the shorter one 6^{in.} in the bowl contains the allowance of Tobacco for the day, this is the constant companion of the out-door worker. In Norway small blocks of meerschaum seem to be most in vogue. The Hungarian Pipes are of red clay. & show asiastic influence in form. The Tyrolese Pipes look very workman like mostly of wood with Roebuck horn—introduced as ornament— [Illustration: DANISH. ARMAGER ISLAND. AMAGER. NORWAY. BUDAPESTH. AUSTRIAN TYROL.] ALGERIA. We are now in a new sphere of Pipe-Land: a Kind of slack water between European & Asiatic systems—in which the Turkish type predominates thus the upper Red clay bowl on the opposite page is quite Turkish & the handsome Arab Pipe of a form seen often smoked riding on a Camel shews us how decoration will now be introduced in a new form. The Stem of this Pipe is beautiful in Colour, the Ivory having a very beautiful arabesque pattern upon it, the red colour of which harmonises delightfully with the dark wood & bowl. The Large bowl is decidedly for House or Tent service. [Illustration: ALGERIA.] AFRICA. Everywhere in the Dark Continent the habit of smoking something or somehow has been met with by our most energetic explorers even in the dense forests of new Equatoria. The Pigmies find it desirable to have something to smoke. Paul Du Chaillu in 1856 brought to our notice the Pipes shewn at the top of the next page. These are used by _The Fans_, a fierce Cannibal tribe—great in the mystery of Iron work, and are generally made of red or very dark clay. The Specimen from _SANKURU River LAT 5° S_ is of wood & very beautifully carved.—The Bone Pipe is very like a Cigar Holder [Illustration: West COAST of AFRICA. FANS TRIBE CANNIBAL. BONE PIPE. R. SANKURU. AFF of R. KASSAI. WOMENS PIPE TUBES S. AFRICA] LAGOS and Ashantee.