uniform and snuff-box in hand, standing at the door of a small tobacco-shop.  Another class of sign or emblem was represented by the “wooden midshipman,” which many of us have seen in Leadenhall Street, and which Dickens made famous in “Dombey and Son.”  Sometimes the wooden figure of a sailor stood outside public-houses with such signs as “The Jolly Sailor”; and a black doll was long a familiar token of the loathly shop kept by the tradesmen mysteriously known as Marine Store Dealers.  Images of this kind sometimes stood at the door, or in many cases were placed on brackets or swung from the lintels.

Sir Walter Scott said that in London a Scotchman would walk half a mile farther to purchase his ounce of snuff where the sign of the Highlander announced a North Briton.

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

Athenaeum 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