Zorah. By Elisabeth Balch. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—This " love.
tale of Modern Egypt " is a book of considerable power. hThe scene is laid in the time of the Khedive Ismail, and the hero is a young Arab who fills the poet of Master of the Ceremonies, and is high in favour with the Prince. The complication turns on the passion which Zorah, whom the Arab has rescued from the bands of a villainous snake-charmer, feels for her deliverer, and his own strong devotion, bred of a dissatisfaction with the social habits of his own home, which he feels for an English girl. It would not be fair to epitomise the story. Let it be suffieient to say that it does not want dramatic and well-arranged incident, and some striking pictures of Oriental life. But we are inclined to ask whether such an interview as that described between Mnstapha and the Princess Saydeh, held as openly as it was, could have been.
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