Warm Corners in Egpyt. By "One who was in Them."
(Reming- ton and Co.)—The writer was at Cairo before the first troubles in Egypt, got away from Alexandria just before the massacre, and took part in the "pacifying" of the city afterwards. He speaks kindly of the Cairenes, who were zealous in warning their visitors of the dangers at hand. Of Arabi he has nothing good to say. Lord Charles Beresford receives emphatic praise. "I have seen a good deal of life and of people, but never did I know what an organiser could be until I first met Lord Charles." The second part of the writer's experiences, and perhaps the most interesting and fresh, relate to a residence of a few months in the Fayfirn, and give a graphic picture of country life in Egypt. " On the Nile " is the title of a third part, and relates the author's experience in doing away with nuisances from the Nile in the cholera time. In the fourth we are transported to Suakim. Wherever he is and whatever hia subject, he always shows himself shrewd and amusing. In an appendix he makes some recommendations which seem worthy of attention. We mast quote one story which he relates d propos of the language which sailors are fond of using. A clergyman on board a ship which was caught in a storm, went to the captain and asked him whether there was any danger. By way of aoewer, the captain took him to the forecastle, where they could hear the men swearing below :—" ' If there were any danger, do you think those men would swear like that ?' asked the captain. ' No, I do not,' replied the landsman, unused to sailor language, and went away relieved in his mind. But the wind gathered force during the night, and the parson's fears resumed their sway. The captain saw him crawl to the forecastle, bending an attentive ear, and following at his heels, waited to hear the result. Suddenly the parson raised his head, a smile irradiated his countenance, and he fervently exclaimed—' Thank God ! they're cursing still.' "
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