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418 NOTICES- OF BOOKS.
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_* Modern Exodus in Haste , " from the corruption of Arab Courts in Cairoshows a state of things from which every European
, traveller would , like these ladies , be only too tHankfiiL to escape by flight .
.. A . couple of chapters on " Old Phoenicians and Modern Druses , " and _" The Battle , " give an insight into the recent ! bloody and
disastrous affrays in Syria , and are well worth _consideration . We - extract a few of the more remarkable passages . ' ..
" The Maronites have . a strong belief _^ that as they are now under the show protec how tion near of F this ranc idea e , they is to will the one truth day . be But openl there y are ruled lenty by her of facts ; time which will
p c aut ppear iousl ver y , y like silentl it *; one y the tiling French Is quite have certain obtained , —and a footing that is , , a that pied graduall -d-terre y , , throughout the Lebanonand nearlthrouhout / Sriathere is scarcela
, y gy ; y Fr two sing en , le chmen or large three ; village they mon have ks in , and the also a whole -m school ission of s taug the and ht Lebanon sch b y l L azar sca without t i tered stes ; throu a mission g these hout _of are Syria one all , ,
teacli an especiall Immense so y well in exam and the p work country le to their us , roun but missions d they Jaffa are so and sure thoroug Jerusalem ultimatel hl y _^ that ; y and of they succe the are s Lazaristes s ; not for onl the y
hearts Arab appreciates , and even the education poorest , — mountain that is to peasant say , they is therefore love money glad with to have all their his sons lishments taught which to count . th and acquire to add wi up th p remarkable iasters , and facili to rea ty d . and In the write town ; accom s they
teach p French also , which ey is . gladly enough learned to aid them in commerce , education and to enable usuall them y renders to become the town dragomans Arab pretentious . Unfortunatel and imp y ertinent their French ; the
been best examp in full le force of which for very are the many peop years le , of and Zah of 'leh whom , where Mr . thi Porter s education says , they has ' are notorious for their prideinsolenceand turbulence . Familbroils
, , y are " incessant The French , and have scarce also a month found another passes without method bloodshed of gaining . ' * substantial - influence in Wherever their Lazaristes tell them of unusuallintel
ligent Sheikh Syria or . person of influence , they send him letters an of naturalization y - , and make him an honorary French subject : of course this includes , or would .
ever be found the occasion to include needed , the . peasantry We learned . of whom also , on each good Sheikh authority is chief , that when the - the French crews Consuls of boats along to the buy coast a flag have , bearing an ingenious the Jerusalem way of Cross recommending , which is .
blessed Guardian by of the the Superior Holy Sepulchre of the ; French under which Convent they of sail the in Terre double Sairite security , the , both thoug Consuls sp h iritual of are course forbidden as well they as are to temporal protect in reality . France onl but y Turkish then their claims own subj them lawful ects , as and countrymen her th subjects ough all _^
and when France requires them they any will be found all ready for her service ; ; our informant mentioned sixty-four well-manned boats whom lie himself knew wlio had done this .. * * * *
places " It to was separate not only gossi in Beyrout p and canards , where from it is more truth difficult and facts than , that In we most learned other tunat how e comp Christians letely the were Druzes seized were imprisoned favored b fined y the when Government they attempted ; the unfor to
obtain arms for themselves , while , , as I have , said , , the Druzes notoriously vided purchased onl largel with common y ; the Christian old muskets mountaineers —while the wherever Druzes we had went rifles were ingreat
proy ; . numbers , and many of their Sheikhs had revolvers—only averyfew , of the _.
_Ubxis-* Handbook for Syria and Palestine , vol . ii .
418 Notices- Of Books.
418 NOTICES- OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/58/
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