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"Madam,' I begin these things are better cut short 'Madam, I love 

 you,' here she frowns and I I push the advantage, and continue. The 

 source of human feelings is impossible to be traced, nor either its final 

 termination ; and why therefore, or for what cause, no reason may de- 

 cide ; but, true it is, I love you.' She seats herself with majestic self- 

 possession, and, with the cunning of her wit, commences a refined disser- 

 tation on the theory of first causes : she poses me I yield resign the 

 debate; but now we are again lost in the mazes of sophistry. What 

 can be done? Let's see we argue upon primal causes. Ah! I have 

 h! * Madam' I touch her hand with a kiss, it must subdue her 

 * Madam,' I repeat, * you are the evidence of your own argument the 

 original cause of my passion the proof of it is my love for you/ She 

 hears consents. I dare not venture farther perhaps press her fingers, 

 and leave her. The Tutor closed this scene of his love-suit with another 

 profound salutation, and, driven by some internal ecstasy, he fairly turned 

 round and round like a blind horse in a mill." 



Moreton of the Grange, Basil Forde the hero, the profligate Colonel 

 Maravel, and others, are drawn with considerable force indeed, over- 

 drawn, and do not seize upon our sympathies with sufficient power to 

 interest us deeply. 



Notices of the Holy Land, and other places mentioned in Scripture, 

 visited in 1832, 1833. By the Rev. SPENCE HARDY. Smith, 

 Elder, and Co., London. 



This is a work much wanted, and one which will be gladly received by 

 the public. Indeed, it has been a source of surprise, that amongst the 

 many travellers who have been traversing every known part of the globe, 

 either for the purposes of science, or for the observation of men, manners, 

 and places, nobody should, pilgrim-like, have visited the various Scrip- 

 tural sites, and conveyed to us an account of their present condition. 

 We are, however, pleased that it has remained undone till Mr. Hardy 

 undertook the task, as he is eminently qualified for it, and hence has pro- 

 duced a very profitable, as well as a very pleasant, book. 



The account given by the Author of his journey from India, along the 

 Red Sea, and through Egypt, will be read with interest at this juncture, 

 when efforts are making to establish an over-land passage to our Eastern 

 possessions. But we proceed to the immediate purposes of the work. 

 He thus describes the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, and 

 their country: 



"I was not able to penetrate far into the desert ; but a single glance into 

 its wastes may almost tell the tale of a thousand miles as to distance, and 

 three thousand years as to time. It is here alone that the Arab is seen in 

 his primitive simplicity, free as the gazelle ; and both as swift in his 

 speed, and as unsettled in his dwelling, as this beautiful wanderer upon 

 the same plains. We are carried back at once to the age of the earliest 

 patriarchs. The forms we see present us with a picture of those ancient 

 fathers, with scarcely a single alteration. We may listen to their lan- 

 guage, number their possessions, partake of their food, attend the cere- 

 monies of their marriage-festivals, and present ourselves before the 

 prince, and still all is the same.* At the well, they water their flocks 

 they sit at the door of the tent, in the cool of the day they take ' butter 

 and milk, and the calf which they have dressed/ and set it before the 

 stranger: the*y move onward to some distant place, and pitch their tent 

 near richer pasturage ; and all the treasures they possess are in camels, 

 kine, sheep, and goats, men-servants and women-servants, and changes 

 of raiment. We may stand near one of their encampments ; and as the 

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