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the commissary had to give each of the bimbashis a tent. They were all 

 my seniors, and naturally pretended to a preference over me ; but the officer 

 said, ' Stand you all by ; this youth, Mohammed AH shall be served first.' 

 And I was served first ; and I advanced step by step, as it pleased God to 

 ordain; and now here I am (rising a little on his seat, and looking out of 

 the window which was at his elbow, and commanded a view of the Lake 

 Mareotis) and now here I am. I never had a master, (glancing his 

 eye at the roll containing the imperial firming." 



CONVERSATIONS ON THE TEETH. BY H. HAYWARD. BOWDERY 



AND KIRBY. 



MANY volumes, we believe hundreds, have been written upon the 

 structure and diseases of the teeth, and upon the prevention and cure 

 of that most agonizing pain the toothache ; but most of the works 

 that have fa'len under our review have been rather addressed to, or, 

 more properly speaking, written for surgeons and dentists, than for 

 the benefit of the public at large. These " Conversations on the 

 Teeth" have no such restrictive object ; they appear to us to emanate 

 from a liberal desire in the author to impart useful information to all, 

 and to guard his readers from quackery and false assumption of 

 scientific knowledge, of which there is pehaps as much in the dental 

 as in any other profession. 



The work is well written, the style is clear and intelligible, and en- 

 tirely devoid of mystery. We are convinced that it may be read and 

 the instructions it contains followed to much advantage. We hope 

 our young friends in particular will avail themselves of the directions 

 given in the care and management of the teeth. 



TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS. SMITH, ELDER. AND Co. 

 THIS stout little volume comprises two tales, each of which, if treated 

 after the ordinary fashion, would make three goodly volumes, and yet 

 be just as full of interest as the majority of the most lauded novels of the 

 season. The first story is entitled " TheConvict's Daughter." The early 

 scenes remind us much of Mr. Gait's political novel, " The Member:" 

 it is replete with the dry humour and caustic observation which have 

 made that gentleman's production so popular. Louisa Henderson, 

 the heroine of the story, and daughter of a gentleman condemned to 

 death on circumstantial evidence for the murder of a person to whom 

 he was professionally opposed, is a very beautifully portrayed 

 character of a devoted girl, to whom all considerations of self are 

 foreign, and whose sole happiness is to minister to the wants of her 

 mother, who is rendered an idiot through grief at the undeserved 

 condemnation of her husband. The parting between Louisa and her 

 father, previous to his trial, if inferior in high-wrought description, 

 is certainly quite equal in all other respects to the celebrated scene of 

 a similar kind in Eugene Aram. The second tale is called '* The 

 Convert's Daughter/' being the narration of the persecution of Jane, 

 daughter of Admiral Lathner, who has been converted to the absurd 

 belief and practices of the sect called Ranters, and insists upon his 

 child marrying the gloomy fanatic who had induced him to leave 



