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276 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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FOREIGN EXTEKATTJKE..
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Household Economy. A Manual Schools Inte...
Tlie Appendix contains a few well selected _recipes for simple _cocikinjuries ing " , and to some which observations children are upon liable " , the ' by mor Dr e . J simp ohn le Smith disorders , Lecturer and
in the Medical School , Edinburgh . This treatise , admirably adapted to the purpose for which it is designed , is one of Constable ' s
valuable Educational Series , and its low price , two shillings , renders it
universally accessible *
276 Notices Of Books.
276 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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Les Harems et LesDerviches *—The Princess Beljioso . in the Harenr . li I was gointo stay at _Tcherfiessat the house of aMuftiwhomsome months
previousl with open y , arms I g had . cured So much of intermittent has , heen said fever of , Oriental and who , _hosj was ritality , awaiting , that me I would willingly abstain from , touching on this chapter—I had read , for
g instance lowing , language tales of the travel hosp , the itality authors of the of Turks which , , whilst celebrated I have in invariabl the most y guessed the- Turkish origin of the population of a village by the pitiable
reception an inhabitant I obtained is taken —besides as a serious , every offer comp of liment hospitality addressed , without to a stranger thinking b of y pretation the strange of misunderstandings certain , formseven which of Europ mig e ht an arise politeness from . a The too liberal real fact inter is
that onl of one all which the virtues Mussulmen held , think in honor themselve in Christian s obliged society to- practise , hosp . itality is tlie , '' "When duties are so very few , it is quite natural . that they should be more
resp onl ected virtue . The which Orientals they take therefor upon e themselves have a great to perform regard . for Unfortunatel this sole and every y virtue which is satisfied by externals only , is subject to be quickl y y , impairedwhich happens daily to Oriental hospitality . A Mussulman would
never be , consoled for having failed in the laws of hospitality . Enter his p house lunder , beg Ms of larder him , to exhaust leave it his , let whole him . stock freeze of or coffee burn or at brand his own ' y , destroy door , carpetsmattrassesillowssmash his crockeryride his horsescrile
them if , you will , he , will _p never , address you with the , slightest reproach , , for pp you are ever a you " Mouzqfir may do " a you guest are . It and is Grod always himself will who be , has welcome sent you . , All and this what is
and admirable morality , but exact let _^ , a without Mussulman the , sacrifice find means of an to obol appear e , or as even hosp b itable y gaining as law a — round this sum is what of money happens , then ninety " a fig -nine for virtue times , and out three of a hundred cheers for . hypocrisy Your host !" attentions at his house
loads departure you , with you do not repay during ; him your twenty sojourn times the value , of but what , if on he your has g consequentl iven you , he will sacred wait until title you of _Moiizqfir have left his and house he will , when throw you stones have after lost
y your y you " . It must be borne in mind , that I am speaking # of the " swinish multitude "
practise and not the of the doing simp it le because and kind in - it hearted they find who their love own to do reward good , and Of who this ,
houses number of , was these my parts old , , his friend is composed the Mufti of of a wing Tcherkess reserved . Like for the all women . the better and
childr © n _> and of an exterior pavilion containing a summer and winter
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/60/
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