Notes of Travel in Egypt and Nubia. Revised and Enlarged.
With an Account of the Suez Canal. By J. L. Stephens. (Marcus Ward.)— These "Notes of Travel," are, in fact, a portion of a work that was very popular some five-and-thirty years ago, and cannot, we should think and hope, be yet entirely forgotten,—Mr. J. L. Stephens's " Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petreea, and the Holy Land." We must protest against the treatment which it has here received. Mr. Stephens was an accomplished man, who has a distinguished place among the travel- lers of this century. He achieved a visit to Petra at a time when such a visit was considered, and probably was, a daring adventure. After-
wards, in explaining the antiquities of Yucatan, he opened what was then an almost new field. It seems to us that the commonest literary courtesy demanded from the publishers that they should give some brief recognition of the authorship of the book, and that they should not have allowed it to be mutilated by what they are pleased to call a "revision." We have not been at the pains to examine the volume throughout, but we have seen quite enough to be sure that what the " reviser " has touched he has certainly not adorned.
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