"'No; they will become rather pale, perhaps feel giddy, spit blood, and suffer from colics, or have pains in the chest--that's all. Besides, you know, although it has been often said that habit is second nature, people are not yet aware how completely man resembles the knife, of which the blade first and then the handle had been changed two or three times. In man there is no nature left--nothing but habit remains. People will become like Mithridates, who had learnt to live on poisons. "'The first time that a man will smoke he will feel sickness, nausea, giddiness, and colics; but that will go off by degrees, and in time he will get so accustomed to it, that he will only feel such symptoms now and then--when he smokes tobacco that is bad, or too strong--or when he is not well, and in five or six other cases. Those who take it in powder will sneeze, have a disagreeable smell, lose the sense of smelling, and establish in their nose a sort of perpetual blister.' "'Then, I suppose it smells very nice.' "'Quite the reverse. It has a very unpleasant smell; but, as I said, we'll sell it very dear, and reserve to ourselves the monopoly of it.' "'My good friend,' one would have said to any one absurd enough to hold a similar language, 'nobody will envy you the privilege of selling a weed that no one will care to buy. You might as well open a shop and write on it: Kicks sold here; or, Such-a-one sells blows, wholesale and retail. You will find as many customers as for your poisonous weed.' "Well! who would have believed that the first speaker was right, and that the tobacco speculation would answer perfectly! The kings of France have written no satires against snuff, have had no noses cut off, no snuff-boxes confiscated. Far from it. They have sold tobacco, laid an impost on noses, and given snuff-boxes to poets with their portraits on the lid, and diamonds all round. This little trade has brought them in I don't know how many millions a year. The potato was far more difficult to popularize, and has still some adversaries." LORD JEFFREY AND JOANNA BAILLIE. Joanna Baillie's first volume of poems was severely criticised in the _Edinburgh Review_ by Jeffrey. In an article upon the deceased poetess in _Chambers's Journal_, we have an account of her subsequent relations with the reviewer. She visited Edinburgh in 1808.