Salad for the solitary and the social: . color, dwelling, or degree;From Zemblas snows to parched Arabias sands,Loved by aU lips, and common to aU hands!Hail, sole cosmopolite ! Tobacco, hail! Having thus reached the climax of our fragrant and volatilesubject—the plant divine —that sweet, oblivious antidote togrief and care—we take our leave of it, with the conviction,that bewitching as is its aroma, yet, unlike our Salad, it allends in smoke! 526 A PUFF AT PARTING. Trae, the one is most fascinating to the olfactory nerve, butthe other flatters and felicitates the palate. The one is ethe-real
Salad for the solitary and the social: . color, dwelling, or degree;From Zemblas snows to parched Arabias sands,Loved by aU lips, and common to aU hands!Hail, sole cosmopolite ! Tobacco, hail! Having thus reached the climax of our fragrant and volatilesubject—the plant divine —that sweet, oblivious antidote togrief and care—we take our leave of it, with the conviction,that bewitching as is its aroma, yet, unlike our Salad, it allends in smoke! 526 A PUFF AT PARTING. Trae, the one is most fascinating to the olfactory nerve, butthe other flatters and felicitates the palate. The one is ethe-real and impalpable; the other substantial, real. The first isundoubtedly very seductive and delicious; but the latter maystand the test that Homer is said to have claimed for true poetry—that, ten times repeated, it should still please. So, gentlecritics, in applying that test, v^heresoever generosity may prompt,please to remember, that notes of admiration as well as kindly-:ticism will be strictly in order. Farewell. ,//, r.)J)I^,t. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Recently published, a new, revised edition, small 8vo, cloth, extra, $ EVENINGS WITH THE SACRED POETS A SERIES OF QUIET TALKS ABOUT THE SINGERSAN^D THEIR SONGS. By the Author of Salad for the Solitary and the Social, Festival ofSong, etc. Mr. Saunders, vsrhose Salad for tlie Solitary and tlie Social has de-lighted thousands of homes and readers, has just prepared Evenings withthe Sacred Poets, and his exquisite taste, extensive reading, and rare famil-iarity with bibliography, shine in these elegant pages. He roams through allthe realms of Poesy, from the earliest times to our own; wanders among allnations and through all cHmes, culling the sweetest flowers and giving us aUthe most brilliant gems of Song. It is a book to be kept near at hand, forrefreshment and strength, for comfort and joy; and when once read is aU themore attractive to be read again.—New York Observer. This volume does something more than string tog
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