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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 55

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    The Oldest Of Flie Old World. By Sophia ...

    we could see and appreciate the author ' s intention , and that we were not to have here and there a few sentences reminding us

    of the great sorry facts connected with the different localities . Facts , too , which in ite of ourselves we were compelled to acknowledge , may

    sp be known and remembered by schoolgirls , but have left but a very dim and vague recollection in the minds of older readers .

    There are few of those personal allusions to the author herself , and to her party , their peculiar sensations of comfort or discomfort ,

    their meals & cwith which some travellers favor us so largely . In facthere , they , seem almost studiously avoidedand while we

    , , recognise and respect the feeling which has omitted them , we are inclined to respect any details from so graphic and agreeable a

    writer . The art of knowing what to tell , and how to convey to another

    the peculiar characteristics of new scenes and a strange life , is rather rare . Just those one or two sliht circumstances which make the

    freshness of a first impression , g very often by familiarity having ceased to strike uswe do not see that it is those , rather than a

    more elaborate descri , ption , which embody and would best convey to another the peculiarity of what we are trying to describe . For this

    reason it is that a few words dropped by the " way , an -allusion or one reference more than which the is not careful intende elaboration d to tell of anything a long , descri very ption often . impress

    accounts allow Mrs , . and Eckley of therefore Eastern has this life it is art even that , as thoug we they think h will they her read have readers with again p will leasure and re again adil her y

    , gone over the same ground with many other travellers . We give a few passages _, taken almost at random .

    liar " After Who - that Glow has when seen the can sun ever has forget declined a sunset —the deep on the crimson Nile ? sky The reflecting

    pecuits golden and lig then ht , upon when the niht river draws , and her burnishing , dark mantle every over object the within icture its p

    vista ran we g look e of ; city upward lamps , , for string there their g is bri nothing ght ball to s of attract light upon the eye long earthward lines of streets . No " . , watch the various

    Above , we have the shining fields of stars ; and as we conthusiasm stellations for nig these ht after heavenl night , we visitors do not altogether at the passionate wonder fervor at the Chaldeans of the Sabean '

    eny , or not worshi worshi p . p The the heavenl Sabeans y ' bodies faith was but ori prayed ginally to pure their and angelic spiritual occupants ; they did to

    intercede with God on their behalf , . But the Sabeans , as well as the Chaldeans , fell away from their early simplicity _1 , and ' could not for by stud considering the

    the work acknowledge the Work Master . The opportunity ying where planetary shine system in darkness is peculiarl ' shine y favorable clearlin in this Egypt land . where The astronomical c lights which science elsey

    had its birthand where , the observations of the , heavens were coeval with the early history , of man . - We look upon Mars , ' the of red science star that that it fires is the

    autumnal skies' and learn from the investigations prohabitants bable that in our Mars ' own , p and lanet ' at , with the time its continent of the inferior s and seas conjunction , may be of seen Venus by the , when

    inwill she is exhibit not more a full than , orb twenty shining -six with millions great of splendor miles removed through from the whole us , our of globe her

    night .

    Notices Of Books. 55

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 55

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/55/