Veiled Women. By Marmaduke Pickthall. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—Mr. Marmaduke Pickthall
gives so intimate a picture of life in the women's apartments in an Egyptian Pasha's house that one wonders how he managed to obtain his facts. His heroine is an English governess who marries the son of the Pasha, and although Mr. Pickthall apparently thinks the ideals of Islam finer than those of Christianity, Barakah, as the Egyptian' rename the Englishwoman, suffers the inevitable degeneration which apparently overtakes all secluded women. The action takes place in the days of Ismail Pasha and ends with the Arabi rebellion, in which Barakah's only son is killed. The book is interesting more from the curious nature of the facts disclosed than from any subtlety of character-drawing or distinction of writing. Anyone who is curious to know how life passes behind the veil cannot do better than read it.
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