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of domestic disquietude in the family of the heroine of the tale, are 

 to our minds a little overcharged, but so very minute an objection is 

 submerged in the exceedingly graphic delineation of the old merchant/ 

 her father, and the passive but indomitable devotion of one of the 

 aspirants to her favour. In the latter portion of the volume events 

 are crowded like sheep in a pen-fold, and are consummated with such 

 rapidity, as not to allow of any very minute dissertation as to the 

 manner of their being effected. This to many who are impatient of 

 digression, however trifling, will be a pleasing feature in the book ; 

 and on the whole we think it quite equal to any one of the preceding 

 volumes of the series. 



AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC ON BEHALF OP THE JEWS, WITH CON- 

 SIDERATIONS ON THE POLICY OF REMOVING THEIR ClVIL DIS- 

 ABILITIES. EFFINGHAM WILSON. 



A VERY able and well- written pamphlet, evincing sound judgment, 

 and considerable research. Every advocate, and every opponent of 

 Jewish Emancipation, would do well to read it. They cannot have 

 a more eligible opportunity of investing eighteen-pence than in the 

 purchase of the fifty-nine pages before us. 



EGYPT AND MOHAMMED ALI ; OR TRAVELS IN THE VALLEY OF THE 

 NILE. BY JAMES AUGUSTUS ST. JOHN.' 2 VOLS. LONGMAN 

 & Co. 



MR. ST. JOHN is well known in the literary world. His various 

 works have earned for him a respectable reputation. He is favour- 

 ably known, among his other works, as the author of a " Three 

 Years' Residence in Normandy," which appeared in " Constable's 

 Miscellany." The present volumes give ample proof that he is an 

 intelligent traveller, and a pleasant writer. His great fault is, that he 

 is too prone to advance hypothesis for every thing he sees in his 

 journeyings, instead of confining himself, as he ought to do, to a de- 

 scription of those deserts. In general he displays considerable 

 learning in the instances we refer to ; whether his notions are as 

 correct as they are ingenious, is another question ; but whether they 

 are or are not, startling paradoxes and original hypothesis are out of 

 place in such a work as this. It contains, however, a great deal of 

 valuable information respecting the present condition of Egypt,and the 

 character of Mohammed Ali a personage who is not only interesting 

 inasmuch as he now occupies the throne on which the Pharaohs once 

 sat, but also for the influence for good or ill which he can exert over 

 the destinies of so many myriads of people. The following is the ac- 

 count he gives of himself : 



" I will tell you a story : I was born in a village in Albania, and my 

 father had ten children, besides me, who are all dead ; but, while living, 

 not one of them ever contradicted me. Although I left my native moun- 

 tains before I attained to manhood, the principal people in the place never 

 took any step in the business of the commune, without previously inquiring 

 what was my pleasure. I came to this country an obscure adventurer, 

 and when I was yet but a bimbashi (captain), it happened one day that 



