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NOTICES OF BOOKS (Continued from page 200). 
The Charm. A book for boys and irirls, with 60 illustra- 
tions. Addey and Co., 21, Old Boud-sirect. 
Now that our troops are departing for the East, there is 
one chapter in this book for boys, 
which will attract the attention of 
many a fireside juvenile group ; for 
with the East, what is more associ- 
ated in the mind of the young than 
the camel or the dromedary. Wo 
subjoin an extract : — 
“Well may the illiterate Arabs re- 
gard the camel as a sacred animal ; to 
them it is indeed ' heaven’s last, best 
gift.' The flesh and milk provide thorn 
with food ; the fine soft hair, renewed 
every year, furnishes them with cloth- 
ing and covering for their tents ; and 
the dung, when dried, burns ns freely, 
and gives a flame as bright and clear 
ns wood — no small benefit in tracts 
of countrv where a tree is rarely met 
with. ‘The ship of the desert’ they 
poetically term it; — and the metaphor 
is not destitute of truth, for well may 
the interminable sands of their desert 
homes be likened to the trackless, path- 
less ocean. 
“ But the chief characteristic of tho 
camel is his faculty of abstaining from 
water for many days together ; be- 
sides the four stomochs, which ho hns 
in common with other ruminating 
animals, is n fifth bag, which serves 
him ns a reservoir for the supply of 
water, during tho enforced periods of 
abstinence which necessarily ensue, 
when traversing the dry and sandy 
deserts of tho East : — 
“ ‘ There, where no springs in murmurs 
die awoy, 
Or moss-crowned fountains mltlgnto 
the day.' 
“ But not in this respect alone is the 
the fromo of the animal marvellously 
adapted to the life he is condemned 
to lend : his nostrils are so organised, 
that ho can effectually close them 
against, and defy, tho hot and burning 
snnd-drifts that overtake and almost 
suffocate the traveller ; the eye is like- 
wise protected from the piercing rays 
of the sun by an overhanging orbit, 
which prevents the camel from looking 
upwards; the soft ami spongy forma- 
tion of his foot enables him to trend un- 
injured these same arid plains, where 
he is content to feed on the coarsest 
vegetables, nnd tough, prickly bushes — 
the longed-for oasis of his desert life ; 
nnd should nt times this poor and scanty 
subsistence fail him, his fut hump con- 
tains astoreof nourishment, tube taken 
into tho system, nnd support existence 
till the dawning of n happier dny. 
“ His several merits wo cannot re- 
frain from summing up in tho words 
of Holland’s quaint translation of 
Pliny : — 
“ ‘ As for camels, they are nourished 
in the Levant or East parts, among 
other hoards of great cnttell ; two kinds 
there be of them, the Bactrians, nnd tho Arnbick: differing herein, 
that the Bactrians have two bunches upon their bncks; the other 
but one apiece there, but they, have another in their brest, where- 
upon they rest and ly. In those ports from whence they come, 
they serve nil to carry packs, like labouring horses, and are put to 
service also in the wars, nnd are backed of horsemen : their 
swiftness is comparable to that of horses; they grow to a just 
meosure, nnd exceed not a certain ordinary strength. The camel 
be four doies together without drinke. nnd when they drink n 
meet with water, they fill their 6kin full enough to serve both f 0 
the time past nnd to come ; but before they drinke, they mug 
tromplc with their feet to raise mud nnd sand, and so trouble th 
water, otherwise they toko no pleasure in drinking. They live 
commonly fifty years, and some 0 f 
them a hundred.’ 
“ A few words more, relating moro 
particularly to the Dromedary, who 
differs from his hard-working fellow 
>n no essential particular, save that h 0 
it is whoso back is adorned with one 
hump instead of two, nnd moreover 
he is blessed with greater symmetry 
of shape nnd form. On the whole' 
too, ns tho more valuable animal, ho 
is better cared for and more kindly 
treated. Beforo he is a week old, t| )0 
little camel hns his legs folded under 
him, nnd is compelled to remain ip 
this humble posture on tho ground 
with a weight upon his buck, which 
is augmented day by day, ns he in- 
creases in Btnture and in vigour. Tho 
young dromedary, on the other hand 
is exempt from nil restraint, and 
allowed perfect liberty and freedom 
till ho attains his second or third year, 
when his education is as carefully con- 
ducted, and his powers of speed os 
gradually developed, as those of the pre- 
destined winner of some future Derby. 
The fleetness and endurance of this 
creature are extraordinary, and tho 
jot-trot at whioh he is generally rid- 
den, implies a progress of ten or 
Iwelve miles an hour; and this pace, 
it is said, he can keep up incessantly, 
without food or water or rest, for 
three whole days and nights. This on 
the authority of many able writers. 
Though his legs ore longer, the 
dromedary is by no inenns us tall ns 
Ids Bnctrinn kinsman. He is never- 
theless of a goodly altitude, measur- 
ing from the top of the dorsal hump 
to the ground, some six feet and a 
half; from the tip of the head when 
devoted, not less than nine feet. How- 
ever, this animal does not benefit, as 
regards appearance, by these odditionnl 
three feet, for it ordinarily carries its 
head, or rather its neck, in so bonding 
a posture, as to gain little or nothing 
in actual height. 
“ In ancient days, both camels nnd 
dromedaries ployed their part in the 
strife of nations — camels bore tho arti- 
ficial elephants employed by Semiranns 
against the Indian king, to the utter 
destruction of hiB horse, though her 
subterfuge was of no avail ; nnd her 
mimic host were quickly put to flight 
by the advance of the genuine elephants 
of the rival army. Cyrus availed him- 
eolf of this same antipathy, and or- 
ruyed even his baggage camels against 
tho beasted cavalry of Croesus, to which 
stratagem may be ascribed the com- 
plete discomfiture of the Lydian army. 
Tho maherries, or dromedaries, har- 
nessed to scythed chariots, had an equal 
shore in the rude wurfare of earlier 
times, mowing down masses of men in their course ; nnd 
mounted on a dromedary, Zenobia, Queen of the East, thought to 
escape from the revengeful hand of the Emperor Aurelian.” 
| in his travelling will not go a whit further than his ordinary | 
I journey, neither will ho curry more than his accustomed and 
I usuoll load. Naturally they doe hate horses. They can abide to ' 
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mHEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.— 
JL Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. 
Farewell performances ot Mr. G. V. BROOKE, being the last week 
but three of ills engagement, previous to his sailing for California and 
Australia Immense success of the new drama, THE CORSICAN 
BROTHERS (which commences nt seven precisely, nnd ends nt ten 
o'clock), with all the thrilling and original effects. In five acts nnd 
nine tableaux. The success and furore nightly evinced nt the raise 
tn scene of this extraordinary drama, at once speak for its superiority 
and excellence; it will be repeated on Monday, and during the week, 
principal characters, by Mr. G. V. Brooke. ’ To conclude with, on 
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the popular burlesque of MIDAS : 
Apollo, Miss Fentheretone. On Thursday, a new farce, called MY 
COOK AND HOUSEKEEPER.— In rehearsal, an original play, in four 
| acts, cnlled WAI.SINGHAM: principal character, Mr. G. V. Brooke 
I — for whom it hns been expressly written; and a new piny, in five 
j acts, culled I)E VALERES, also written expressly for Mr. G. V. 
Brooke. As tho nights of Mr. G. V. Brooke's appearance in London 
| arc limited, and in order to meet the numerous applications to see him 
in a general round of his unrivalled characters, arrangements arc in 
I progress for their representation ; nnd which the Lessee desires to be 
j most emphatically understood, cannot be repeated. 
Stage-Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. 
mHEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.— 
I J- Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. 
On Wednesday morning, Murch 8, A GRAND NATIONAL DE- 
MONSTRATION inaldVfn FUND for the SUPPORT of tho WIVES 
and CHILDREN of the BRITISH SOLDIERS who have been sent 
us an expeditionary force on foreign service. The Lessee lias placed 
the Theatre, free of expense, for a performance of THE CORSICAN 
BROTHERS, in which Mr. G. V. Brooke (who on this occasion gives 
i his services gratuitously) will appear, under the immediate patronage 
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FLOWER OP MEXICO, with tho extraordinary effect of THE SEA 
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celebrated Comedy which has been produced with Great Success, 
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Murray, Miss F. Maskell* Miss Laidlaw. 
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