Dickens's little figure, which adorned old Sol Gills's shop, "thrust itself out above the pavement, right leg foremost," with shoe buckles and flapped waistcoat very much unlike the real thing, and "bore at its right eye the most offensively disproportionate piece of machinery." But this was only one of many "little timber midshipmen in obsolete naval uniforms, eternally employed outside the shop-doors of nautical instrument-makers in taking observations of the hackney-coaches." All have disappeared, together with the black dolls of the rag shops and many other old-time figures. A stray highlander or two, or other figure, may survive here and there; but with very few exceptions indeed, the once abundant tobacconists' signs have disappeared from our streets as completely as the emblems and tokens of other trades. INDEX Adams, Parson, 104-106 Addison, Joseph, 92, 94 "Aldermen," 89 Aldrich, Dr. of Oxford, 83, 84, 85 Alfred Club, 166 Althorp, Lord, 147 Amadas, Captain P., 13 Andrewes, Bishop, 22 Angelo, Henry, 121, 122, 144 Apothecaries, Society of, 90 Appleton family, 209 Arber, Edward, 12 Archer Collection, 237 Athenæum Club, 139, 186 _Athenian Oracle, The_, 210 Atkinson, Canon, 231 Aubrey, John, 21, 23, 205 Austin, Alfred, 169 'Bacconist, 68 Balzac, H. de, 181, 182 Banks's Collection, 237, 242 Barclay, Dr. William, 52 Barlow, Bishop, 83 Barlow, Captain, 13 Barrow, Isaac, 83 Bates, Dr. George, 58 Bath, 90 Beaumont and Fletcher, 32 Bell, W.G., 45 Benson, Archbishop, 169 Blackburn, Archbishop, 227 Blackie, Prof. J.S., 188 Boyd-Carpenter, Bishop, 222 Bradley, Ben, 114 Brass pipe, 231 Briar-pipes, 163, 175, 176 Broadley, A.M., 246 Brooks's Club, 196 Brougham, Lord, 147 Brown, Tom, 91, 212 Browne, Isaac H., 112 Browning, Robert, 188 Brushfield, Dr., 15, 21, 61 Buckland, Frank, 188 Bull, Rev. W., 128-130 Burn, J.H., 66, 239 Burnet, Bishop, 83, 84 Burney, Frances, 121 Burney, Dr., 109 Burton, Robert, 26, 50 Burton, Thomas, 67 Butler, Samuel, 183 Byron, Lord, 141, 166 Calthorp, Lord, 147 Cambridge, 70, 95, 102, 132-134, 168, 171, 191, 225, 226 Camden, William, 45 Campbell, Thomas, 141 Carlyle, Thomas, 170, 188 Cecil, Sir Robert, 36 Chapman, George, 29, 42, 55 Charles I, 58, 63 Charles II, 70, 71 Cheroots, 138, 156 Chester, 89, 109 Chicago, 222 Chichester, 57 Chigwell, 54 Church, smoking in, 225-233 "Churchwardens," 89, 162-164, 170 Churchwardens' accounts, 47, 73, 226, 229 Cigarettes, 159, 179-183, 187, 189, 194, 195, 217-223 Cigars, 137-141, 144-148, 155-157, 159, 166, 169, 172, 179, 187, 194, 195, 218-222 Clarendon, Earl of, 59 Clark, John Willis, 171, 191 Club snuff-box, 187 Clubs, 139, 165, 166, 186, 187, 196, 197 Coffee-houses, 81, 91-95 Cogers' Hall, 107, 159, 160 Coke, Mr., of Norfolk, 147 Coleridge, S.T., 123, 142, 143 Collins, Mortimer, 220 Collins, Wilkie, 204 Colton, Rev. C.C., 139 Coltsfoot, 43 Commons, House of, 34, 66, 146, 198
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