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time more about Egypt than any one else, wrote in

1835 a description of Cairo which was originally intended for his famous book, " Modern Egyptians." He did not, as a matter of fact, so

use it, though he took some passages from it, while other portions

were borrowed by his sister, Mrs. Poole. Her younger eon, Reginald Stuart Poole, copied the MS. in 1847, and brought it up to date by occasional corrections. This corrected copy, itself approved, the editor thinks, by Mr. Lane, is now published. It is needless to enlarge on the value of a contemporary account by an observer so careful. The reader will find not a few curious and interesting passages ; the description, for instance, of the slave-market, which " fifty years ago" was still doing a good business.