726 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND MUS GAZETTE. [Jury 30, 1864. 
after a very pleasant voyage of 108 days ; from port t to | are per rforce widely ree "- being | a | strictly imal ; 
port, and with only just enough bad weather to let us! nocturnal animal, he is n to be seen before | | but it ae — a Tintin among the lions of 
know what a storm at sea is like. was som sic sunset, "They don't tbink — ‘of a lion in Algeria; | the Mahouna for which I was unprepa ared ; and then 
time before I got any employment after my arrival, | he says: “ I asked a woodman, who spent ia greater arose the ques apr n Song e a lion with an Mem 
but at last I got a job of hay seien. which pee part of his life up in the forest, if he ev saw lions uch a a scarecrow, look with favi 
continued a short time, and Rea as ae early three | there, and he answered, elque efois, past uhi just | up su 
bas ip before I got anything else to do. E dnd of J., | as if he was speaking of ing di 
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to At El Kantra uU und the town a collec- | Our House and Aras n. By Cuthbert W. Johnson, 
where he was, and after waiting a week got a letter to | tion of huts bu ilt of sun- died "brick, with flat roofs of F.R.S. Svo. 82. Wiliam Ridgway, Piccadilly, 
say that if I I liked to come t miles up Ae afe I could | Palm stems, with d having little Tuis lite book is written with the lauda t nte a 
find employment. So off I set, w An nothing but med windows, or rather air holes, of fantastic atras . | if possible, to by diree ting 
blanket and the things I as up in. I walked there The women see emed to pun rea the working class tino. to many t of i t 
in two days, and was taken on de work the ae which flourishes most in - and garden, which cern might no be observed ; 
morning, hoeing Toitoi and then shearing began, | city, is lying a rn length and meditating. The * and by ren nder ring some of its pini ds better 
and I had to fill up the sheep pens from |capacity an jen has for this occupation is astonishing. | unders 
4 am. til 7 pat. This lasted for nearly a He never seems to tire of it, and never demands any A gentleman is sin bed, when gos servant tap 
m awf imes these were too, I ca ion. Mr. Ormsby next explores the Djebel | door to call him, but instead o f getting up faethe 
tell you: at night no - to lie on, nothing but one| Mitlili, and gets a shot at a splendid Feshtall, the | or i& may b be while — he ask himself the question, 
blanket under me and one over me, and thousands of | maned moufiion of the Atlas, a magnificent wild sheep, Why do we use er beds and blankets? and even. 
fleas, so that hardly any "sleep could be had, and I | got with horns thicker at the base than a man's arm, and tually he comes P we onc lusion, that it is because 
i vue than two feet long, following the curve. And om answer the purpose of keeping us warm, better 
However, I mana ged to get over that difficulty. Aft en, from the top of the mountain, the view he had than some ot ther things, which are not non-c onduetons, 
shearing, one of our shepherds left, and 1 applie ed to éd | longed for was before him. ‘There lay the Pabor a e 
overseer tolet me go on a after a| vast tawny plain, dotted with black ike a huge rahi the coals, the tea-kettle, t the sugar, cream, “and 
while he consented and I = remained so te io A skin, to quote the old m MUN | coffee, and even the oran marmalade, supply him with 
since. I have now over 5000 sheep under charg uthwards an unb n the dim | food for thought and talk, till ye — a turn in the 
and two Igo - 3 ` "e - until pene It M | | bine fm eru e the ve came down to sai E i garden, pe — the plants, he Grass, and 
an awfully lazy job, as to walk so very slow, About halfway between El Kantra a ae Bis! i insect li fe und hi m, in the same style. There is a 
and the days appear very regi pee seem as though of the “remarkables” of pee (as the old t i t 
they uaintly eall them), the grea salt ie. of dr kt, rom the Gardeners’ Chronic d publica 
The coun’ as flat table for upwards o Qu taia. bs e " no mere il w vith In — of salt robe of that class. From its style we eo think the 
hundred milis NO ate d can see houses 70 te cropping out of i an hon b ook was probably intended for young peop! ple. We say 
off easily when it is a clear day. ies: is a very ae probably ny gh ps r five f 
climate, and when it blows you have to be very caref and seven or — seu feet vri with pea AA c 
with your sheep; they will drive ou pit before the | precipices, valley s, grottoes, and all things dpt toa| Zhe Grammar of House Planning, by a 
wind. To-day (May 12) we have had an awful gale | mountain erecan| and M.R.S.A. 5° Fullarton & Co., aede pe 
from the south-west, with rain, hail, and snow. Al the be no doubt ihah this is one of the series. of bas hills; London. 1864. siey 
mountains are covered with snow, and look very grand | W which Herodotus mentions (| Deos. the last, 20 piss very considerable improve. 
indeed. They run the whole length of the colony. |- 10 days' journey : are along the ridge of. ‘sand, reset] ments e been made i in domestic architecture, m ii 
ive is j the f ount Hutt, i n all rey can add to 
little wooden house with another shepherd, and we Incidentally we learn that “the Arab - is a terrible | houses Wise people therefore, who are in tending W 
scarcely ever see anybody to speak to for months at a ewe but he bas one redeeming q ild should obtain the best advi 
time, so that this i is mp lonely place. My employe arrant coward, and holds a stone in great a . No x those inventions which are found to answ 
and one of the edt] traveler ought ever to approach an ed or | practice, and are most appr eb Many respi 
men im the colony, owns upwards "^ 12. 20 1 sheep, douar without providing himseif with half a dozen they could choose a site and plan a house, qum mistake 
and has sus v tte 35,000 acres of land, besides heavy a and if he delivers a good family shot into made her re is ueually a a life-long trouble, for Bev i el 
any amount o f la in Onristenoreh. The iA ud ü up the k that rushes at him he m: may be let pass." 
here is not fit for agrieultural purposes, as it is Mr. eem considers the little territory called “La once ret are committed. 
so stony. The sea ie never make any hay of Grande Kabylie," a district about ewe iles by 60 in| Of course aea A red principles of house-planning, | 
colonial Grass, as it is so wiry. The sheep eat only extent, the pens Switzerland of North Africa. It is a| which never can be violated - ee and de. les k g 
the short Grass close to the stones. The lon ng Grass | aped see region, inhabited by a fine race of | before us endeavours to point out, The 
gre g n but | men, as ae as possible from the Arabs the | appears to have given ar rie subject, Pa yp " 
the generality pone or tussocks is is abont F foot | — - i prin of Vandal fidos « Sev and Olives | probably eontributed to the peres of the “ Builder,” and . 
ong. vg TTA - except i in the bush, in | abundance, e every v village ha its row w of — publications, for he has been perm ted to 
nor shrubs thers” the Tat d i oil "jme h 40 thi extracts - thes papers. The principles 7 
and € look which way you s will. I have found the d its deem constructed oil. -press yat ng i De laid prm are the resul& of observati perienc 
useful; in fact I could not do without it. middie, like the stocks in an old English village; and | and they are founded on good sense. Aspects T 
The rifle I have not used since el landed. You remember | Very. village er we met had the hood of his e says, chief elements in choosing a site, 
rbury Settle d Figs, of which, with a jolly bonhomie, iet! “architects in Leo en pay i pe "s to the 
nothing 
Well, that book isas full of pa M ae it possibly « can be; mer, and admirers ery of r 
and this I have found to be the case with all that I have wn seems that “ Dr. Shaw w was aware of the fact that | but the latter. Of e course you can’t have all 
read. G. E, F. lions were eaten in Barbary; but the Oxford philo- | rooms with a south-east aspect, which is undou 
PEPPER UNIS EE Sc camer UM h the best, any more than the late Mr. Herring could 
oie e ground that it was an inversion of the natural have a south sere he aera running pier 
order of things, lions being made to eat men, and not garden, ping assuredly the chee — and even i 
otices of Books 1 versá, insu dre the 6 ustom obtains to this | healthiness of a house depends greatly upon considera: — 
Autumn Rambles in North Africa. By John Ormsby, day, and not among the Ane: only. The day of my | tions of ten i 
. of the Middle Temple. Pp. 298. 8vo. Longmans, |arrival at Tebessa — bs brought in a fine be peri close to the house are absolutely pernicious 
son bad killed, m verset et we breakfasted om | but if planted at a proper distance they com ompose its 
Iw the present day a professional man who has the lion at the D c: I put up. The flesh is like | finest ornament. They shou ld be considered as side 
means, thinks a elie tour indispensable. If eine poor, stringy, strong-flavoured veal.” 
and vigorous he often passes his hol oliday admiri "Whether this savoury fare had anything to do a ing the principal objects of attraction i in themsel 
the beauties of Switzerland, climbing m ee: tr ro € is ite „Mr. Ormsby had an inordinate longing for for eir disposition should be „such as ente à void 
breathing the pure Alpine atmosphere. Mr. Orms d 
had many a time done this, but under the impression "o iti is worth while for the tourist to know that * - « No more fitting or beautiful and potis MÀ 
that toujours perdris w — preces à A is possible for a man who has a on Monday in t 
rom arua Marseilles a d €: and om | London, by making the best use of express tra ani m the 
Algeria was obe DI d , | quick steamers, to e Main ts ition to ve dined | o ts sent ex to gratify th e senses, 
etie te * eom pu — pies This | on by a lion in., Ahies on the following Friday et e pm tray "ps which are stl 
bond | eremi" an immense n sy vi ee tourist. | fection, of colour and shape, fr ess, and 
poy Arabs, me, tid old familiar M of na. charming | This This ramble with the lion hunters is very aller inc Pecan die ^ 
story book of childhood, the Arabian Nights, ipe extremely well told throughout, though the *noble| Drainage; prevention. cg s which is better than 
left more pictures behind it than many beast? omitted to make his appearance. We could, | its cure Seniüation ; Bich sexton t 
greater ability since N ©, | deamhna lah the reader with some extracts from Weit oF tho dor fa om, and edo tn Nie 
"The thought was certainly a moy one, and was | this chapter, and the next, entitled “a Derby Day with with | kind, are all treated of, and well. tity 
carried out in a very moderate space of time, with very the Arabs,” but it would be — fair to the book, | cuts and plates are given, — Ns oof gentlemen's 
little real inconvenience, and at a very moderate cost, of which enough has been said to s how that it ought | villas and cottagers’ houses, figures of approved t 
and it was the most thorough eg that can well be | by all means io be procured ; for it -— prove capital | for floors and roofs, traps for drains, &e. i rms 
i i e d of 
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hose bea 
a 
Batna, as Hannibal rossed the Alps, | invaluable to the ‘Algerian tourist. The story of tbe their decoration, lighting, and every 
old horse is quite pathetic—we must d comfortab 
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for it: :—* My companion left me while he went to fetch SS I aS TRA 2 
erves to his horse. He returned leading an animal, which} In Parts 12 and 13 of Dr. William Smith's S 
only by could be deseribed as a specimen of | Dicti PLU is an ks article = 
. He | horse- and the nine differ ent words 
autumm é 
amount to walking, EEN a Muf O Mh e; I|there are persons at ard T who ely assert that 
seen | looked as much, when M v. C. hastened to Sip tht that | the mies formed quM bf do ee f bs Baptist 
t nat n 
Eae. 
tree (Ceratonia an Yap 
the district west of the river Triton | that of bearing burdens, To be a lure for lions was 
1 scarcer than | Object at night; and his efficiency as a bait was in- | locusts come, for they fatten ud 
ires a large | creased by a chronic cough, which signalled his where- | [earn "here are diferent ways of preparing ee 
, so that they | abouts with the regularity of a minutegun. This! for food; sometimes they are ground an 
