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    58 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    Mainstone Volumes 's . Housekeeper Londo...

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

    The shores were then studded with the crowded _villages of Magdala , Pella , and Gadara one , boat Scythopolis only is , now and to many be found others on . the Of all Sea these of Galilee Tiberias . " alone remains ,

    One more extract , and we close the volume . " There is no beaten of path across camels the desert and . The without sand-bearin chart g wind blots

    the out Arab the foot instinctivel -prints preceding finds his to the ; limits yet , of the desert . or Our compass fourth , day was one of fearful y for way on it we had a taste indeed of the great

    and terrible wilderness memory / The day , had broken in clouds that hung suspiciously over the horizon , but they were light and of no portentous character htfullcool , accord and

    ing shaded to . our We Arab were guides approaching . The first that three part of hours the desert were known delig as ' y the moving tected sands , ' our when faces towards with veil noon s and a fresh wire breeze spectacles sprang : as up the . from wind the increased sea . We in pro vio-

    which and lence crouched , pricked wild gusts down like , in needles close spite to . of them The all precaution camels for protection at length , drove . refused The the storm sand to go was : into we dismounted not our accom faces - , to encounter

    It panied see mi before ght with be us called rain . The . a It sand was raging - a rain dry storm , , for but it shut pelted none out the us the unmercifull less horizon a fearful from y . enemy We view could , and scarcel assailed y .

    In us storm one with to of a subside these battery fearful . of Our small sand reflections stones -storm and s were the gravel army not of . of a Xiong C very amb we p yses leasing sat was waiting character destroyed for , , the for in

    Instinctive their 1805 back b . c , when sagacity and knelt 2000 , saw persons down the storm and At approaching length 1000 cam the el tempest . s _} They = > erish spent ed became . Our its restive fury camels and , turned , with the

    but sunli as ght the came s clouds strugg li ling htened throug . a new h the feature golden in mist the . storm The wind presented graduall Itself , y lulled . A ;

    furious shower of hail g and , rain fell , thus concluding that day ' s adventure , and giving us a very satisfactory idea of a ' sand-storm' in the desert . Our

    tents were pitched as soon as the wind abated , and we gladly welcomed clear shelter and and cold repose . The . The stars sun limmered declined prop promising itiousl ly y , throug and the h the evening cracks came of our on g

    canvas roofas we dreamed of home and country , wondering if it would ever be our lot again , to experience such a foretaste of heaven as that African distant desert

    picture recalled after so fearful a day in the solitary wastes of an . "

    58 Notices Of Books.

    58 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    Mainstone Volumes 'S . Housekeeper Londo...

    Mainstone Volumes ' s . Housekeeper London : Hurst . By and Eliza Blackett Meteyard . 1860 (" . Silverpen" ) . In Three

    thoug It is with ht out , the and greatest well written pleasure book tha , t quite we draw the hi attention ghest attainment to this well of Miss Mete

    yard crea its au tion occup thor of ' s ies the po a w present p os , t as in age the En , g last that lish effort l of iterar a should stead y lif y always con which tributor under be is . to the tru the th well th do - -

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    , wa g , , f v ery liar impressive signature to th _apio ose ended who fro to m articles year to which year hav never e wa b tched elied th its

    gu T ar antee peculiari . ty of Miss Meteyard ' s intellect , the points in which intense

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/58/