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Bast are made to perform an appropriate and leisurely an loog been famed. The pressure of the
quotation on travel in generaL Mr. Bartlett's ,‘ Nile times, which farmers cry out admit, is no doubt
Beat " yields some good descriptions; Sir Gardiner frequently too real ; but all men who feel this preasure
Wilkinson's " Manners and Customs of Egypt," I should have the manhood to put the home question
and Mr. Hamilton's " Egyptiace," throw light on Ito themselves—. Huw far do my difficuhies arise from
many obscure points in connection with the remain- ; cheap corn ; and how far from my want of knowledge,
lag monuments of the country. Mr. Fellows illus. I and my bad farming ; and my loss of cattle, from
traits modern manners ; and, lastly, the Chevalier ignorance of the way to keep them in health ?" The
Bunsen's "Egypt's Place," &c ,is laid under contribu- price of wheat may not rise greatly, but the farmer',
tion for a chapter on the orders of Egyptian mytho- abilities might be elevated, and by their elevation the
logy. If any are disposed to object tbat Mr. Monk's owner will be better able to meet the exigencies of his
own account of what he saw would be more interest- position. All our agriculturists should spend the
lag, such personal should remember that none so well needful time for learning something of the structure
SE that gentleman could determine such question, of the animals it is part of their business to rear and
At Cairo Mr. Monk dismissed his boatmen, and employ, and should learn also the laws by which
prepared to spend a few aye in the city He thus these creatures live and move in health and strength,
ascribes to be both pleasant to the eye and profitable to the
anorenso IN CAIRO. pocket, and the laws moreover which will certainly
Daring my stay in Cairo I struck up a great friendabip operate to destroy both these desirable qualities where
with a Turk, who kept a miseellanons shop for seggiidehe
(prayer carpets, or, es we should alt them, hearnaugs), van's
ignorance rules in place of knowledge. Mr. Peres-
book is only one of those desirable for such a
feu is, amber mouth-piects, and every species of turban
With the double object of giving an idea of its
wherewith to entrap the unwary Frank. Scarcely • dee coarse of reading, but it is an essential one.
passed that I did not pay a visit to his shop in the soeck, or
market, where be always welcomed me, n awithstanding my character and amusing our readers, let as make is me
non-compliance with toe general practice of taking off one's
extracts—pasting over the anatomical details to se-
!hoes and leaving them below, made me mount the raised left a few popular and fluent passages :
flier of his cell, and seat myself in Oriental fashion on his
THB COUNTENANCE OF A HItSE.
Carpet. The tobacco puree is draws Irom his bosom and /
given to the boy, who fills a pipe, Wins it, replaces the
I mouthpiece, and hands it to the guest. He then sends to the 'ta the turf—a gentle-
/seem an esteemed.at nee on •
man whom judgment ta the choice of a racer by everybody
nearest coffesehop, and in less than a minute the intimate with him, is on all occasions appealed' to—wk-o
will
not purchase a thorough-bred her e unless his countenance
oh:dyes ewers, with two small coffee-cups brim fall
of thick boiling coffee, while for the Frank sugar is be such as he approves of. An ill-visaged, bad-tempered
provided. Sometimes a second cup is brought, and looking hone .he invariably declines at any price. His
the ,pipe is refilled. In this manner have I spent common practice in selecting Men eat of large studs is to
have the hones for sale brought fleet to the door or window
many an odd half houreend seen mo re of east( rn life and eutern
matinees in a short month, watching the different nnnun in et the stable, to give him an opportueity of surveying their
the bazaars, and observing the passers by, than 1 could have countenances; alter which, he only sus out such as he has
learnt ceder an experienced dragoman is a year. My very in yhysionoroy
Doe day,
Gulden.. d
small stock of Arabia was considerably increatea by the friend fromrarhintol4V:half:y' w while f¢
tacoluntltarya ~inace°4 rggrtY, int! la!
tone of circumstances, in attempts at an:venation with my
Turkish friend, fur I never visited him with a laguau tie chateau, when, es we were riding along,.l perchance obierved
foal was running by the side of a
place or dragoman ; and in the end I not only brought him .
thornshim, bredar a
Parretti a field by the ad ld "Yes "
considerable custom, but my friends were enabled to melee „ eeigt, „ atlitottetati Gel -
e. ,
their purchases at Irom fifteen to twenty per cent. cheaper "?' looks to me as if be were got by
1 racing stallion then in Boreland. " How nu
than they coald have done with a laguaa d• place, whole that eD . t
" said I, "when the hor
per outage is not untrequently one ti th at the whole put- e is not in th is country ? "
outage" Why," remind he, " the mare must have been imported
chase money. in foal." "oe, thee I suppose you know that to have
The next ',ketch introduces us to been the ease." " No! indeed, I know nothing further than
AN EGYPTIAN SHOPKEEPER. that the foal's face has the identical expression of the old
When asked the price of anything, he demands about horse's," "Then you really must excuse me, saying, that
I double the real (market ?) value of the article ; the customer it appears to me you are forming an opinion of the sire of the
offers perhaps one-third of the sum named. Tnis he of foal upon very slender grounds." "Sander as you suppose
course, refused, but the original demand is lowered. The them, I will make you a wager of a guinea they prove aw-
customer then bids something more, and at length, with the rest." " Done! "—The way to settle the dispute was ready
aid of a pipe and a cup or two of coffee, a price is agreed enough : the term-lime of the property lay about half a
upon, and tho purchase effected. A tenpin is - mile out of the high road. Thither we drove ; UMW the pre-
cluded under hell an hour, and sometimes days are required PriotOr, a stranger to both of us; and from him learnt, to
to arrive at the
_mite mittens, during which time a constant my surprise and loss of my wager, that the colt was got by
war of words is carried on, with great apparent warmth end the horse named, the mere having been purchased in He eland
vehement gesticulation. but, in spite of app me, with and brought over in foal.
great good humour on both sides. Many articles are brought This little anecdote will
into the bsz eas by the owners, and delivered to the dellalk nun in horses, that we are not in the habit of paying ell the
or auctioneers, who perambulate the market and receive attention we ought to the heads of horses, and in particular
bidding., calling out toe lut offer. These ructions are car to that part oi them we call the lace. We ere told, the
ried on in so leisurely a way, that there is no fear of having cetentersance I. "the peculiar property of man "—is the
an article thrust unexpectedly upon you. Amber mouth- mind pourtrayed in the face : call it what we may, however,
pieces are often to be purchased in this way at a very rea- there Is in every brute an expression of face peculiar to him
sonsb:e price, or his kindred, by which we may not only recognise him
better than by any other distinctive character, but in a very
From Cairo the author departed to follow the route great dune Judaea his temper and capabilities. Tae large
of the Indian mail to Suez, and, crossing the Desert, head not infrequently possesses a face whose even is woes-
visited Horeb and Sinai. Ile then entered the Holy mandatory, or of a charac'er so open and good-tempered as
Laud, and visited Hebron, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, to assure Ps of the tractabili-y and willingness of its peserssor;
cirectustu is=descaunderf
a wh
n iechdiiit wo ultd d ttj WTO
ct tn ogit.o Ile
have
and subsequently made an excursion to the east of
w
Jordan, reureing to Alexandria by a French steamer. known a great many good big-Leaded italebred horses—
Mr. Monk', book contains much that ie interesting. hunters, roadsters, de.—with faces of kindly expression: at
When he can forget ancient learning and recondite the same time I must join in the eminent anathema pro-
, speculations, to look upon and describe things for nuanced upon big ugly heads, and particularly when com-
, himself, he 'becomes an agreeable companion. It is ,Tilill.tti
I,m4):Kred oreo
biped with sour,
TlttellaHsirESalt.
not his office to gild the splendours of Stamboul, or A neck disproporionately long will, according as it is well
' paint the scenery of the Nile these have been or ill carried, detract moro or less from the symmetrical
already done by professior al hands ; but we can accept beauty of the fore parts : at the same time that it is operating
with pleasure his pictures of genial Turks, crafty in rendering the brad more burdensome then if it were a
Sheiks, and lay brothers who live on Mount Sinai and shorter project WO from the body, on account of the increase
of leverage. A favourite exclamation of Professor Coleman's
vet defy the law. was, "Give me a horse that will starve at grass ;" thereby
meaning, a horse having& neck so short that, from not being
able to reach the grass, he was incapable, or nearly to, of
getting hie living by grazing. Such extreme and diepropor-
tioneble shortness of neck, however, although advantageous
in the light in which it was viewed by the professor—viz.,
decrease of leverage, is on some other amounts by no means
desirable. It is perhaps an objection to a hone with a very
short neck, and legs at all lens, that he cannot but with diffi-
culty get his living by griming; but a greater objection to
such shortness is, that a hone so made can hardly by any
training in the manege bt made to ride well. The et ck is
too short anti too Miek—the two properties generally go
together—to admit of the required flexion, sad the conse-
' quence is, the need cannot, by any perseverance In miring
or bitting, be drawn into its proper position. The horse will
ride piggishly—go boring tinware, perhaps with his noes
eat, and make that sort of continual dead pull on the hand
that gives his rider the sensation of his inevitably falling down
at the first blunder in action he happens to make. A horse's
neck that is short is not only, commonly, broad and thick as
well, but, moreover, is combined with strong shoulders,
thereby rendering him a great deal mon fit for the hareem
collar than for the saddle ; such shortness and thickneis in
the neck, and strength in the shoulders, being for homers
attended with many advantages. The bull-neck, ..e it is
called, is proverbial for strength, and strength of a kind
which appears well adapted for draught. In Spain and
Portugal the oxen are yoked to the bullock-cars by their
borne, which by leathern thongs are lashed to the pole of
the car ; arid thus, by str: with of neck alone almost, elo they
move forward with their loads, and, to spectrum, with as
much facility and effect as though they were—ts in our own
country—in harness collars. Nothing can demonstrate power
in the neck better than this • at toe same time that it shows
us that the commonly received notion, " the neck should be
lean," is erroneous. Such thinness or kennel!' may prove
admirably Bolted for flexibility, and be the means of the
horse reining-in and riding pleasantly; but for every purpose
of power, for endurance, for guar intro of bodily strength, a
broad and muscular nook is a point to be sought after and
valued.
But the neck may be long, and yet its carriage may be
such as shall counteract any increase of leverage. In the
horse " with a rainbow neck," elMouge has neck may be
by actual adenessurtment equaliy long with that of another
horse who carries his neck quite rraight, yet will the
leverage of the head be altogether different. It will be
seen, on a review of the skeleton, that the lever, In • well-
carried head, does not run in a line parallel with the neck,
but extends diametrically across the curve of it ; proving
that the neck, though long, does not in point of tact—so
long at lent as it be well-carried—add any thing to the

irarkwo;th Castle. A historical Rmasce. 3 volt.
Newby.
" Warkworth Castle" is a very fair specimen of the
large class of novels for which Mr. G. P. R. James, of
all other writers, has to answer, in addition to hisown
literary sins, litre we have kings and queens
talking like common people (like very common people
sometimes), and bold yeomen, and stalwart knights,
and stuidy burghers, behaving for all the world as
bold yeomen, stalwart knights, and sturdy burghers
bahave in marls—and nowhere else. Edward the
Third is reigning in England by pursuing his con-
questa abroad. Queen Philippa is before Cal de; and
the Scottish King is preparing to pay a visit to Eng-
land, on the principle of those callers whose
objt et it is to fled the master of the house " not at
home." The barons are of course drawing from the
Jews and traders their money, and occasionally their
teeth. The " monks of old" are conducting them-
selves in the traditional manner—that is to say they
"laugh, ha, ha!" are intriguing with everybody,
I drinking ditto, and planning high treason through
. the medium of low conversation. All these signs of
the times are deecribid in the course of the work with
a minuteness which has all the graphic charm of one
) of George Robins's advertisements. Then, as fee
. character, we have a specimen of the fine old freeboot-
ing border nobleman in Sir Walter Selby, who treats
monks and abbots not a whit better than they
deserve—that is to say, he treats them very badly,
and whose principal faults are a tendency towards
5 treason, and a facility in carrying off a certain Lady
Jacqueline, for both of which failings he is very pro-
: perly punished by the loyal and loving young heir of
• Warkworth. The English queen, too, has a great
; deal to do in the course of the book, and acts and
talka with a dignity worthy of Mrs. Warner herself.
Geoffrey Chaucer has also s prominent place ; and,
a from what we gather of his general conversation, we
should decidedly be inclined to think that he bad
Y talents which eminently fitted him to become a prose
writer as well as a poet. We throw out this sugges-
t tion just as a hint to his commentators. Altogether
' the book is what might have been expected from a
r. disciple of Mr. James, wanting somewhat in judgment
and considerably in style. As, however, the general
run of romance readers are not very critical, it is not
is unlikely to find a numerous circle of admirers.
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leverage.
There are circumstance', however, under which increased
length with straightness en the neck, however inelegant it
may be, appears even to be productive of advantage. It
seems to me that the prepozdernnee of the head in the for-
ward direction must have some influence in facilitating pro-
gresaion at the time that the horse is flinging himself forward
in his gallop with all his might; and in order that it may
have this effect the more, he projects his head while gallop-
pieg to the utmost, and inclines it to the ground. I know
very well other ends are answered by this straightening of
the neck and protrusion and dedication of the head, but
this nowise militates against the operation of the gravity of
these parte in that sort of swinging or leaping action of
which the gallop consist'. This accounts for ler gth in neck
being considered desirable in a racer, and for his always
making the most of it in running, carrying his head in that
thrust-forward petition that his muzzle is the foremost part:
hence the report that a horse has won his race "by a nose"
becomes literally correct. This demonstration of the utility
of a long and straight neck reminds us once more than, in
regarding the conformation of horses, it is our duty ever to
bear in mind of what breed or kind they are and for what
purpose they are by nature or art intended. Ina hackney,
nothing is more unpleasant than a long neck so straightened
that the rider in vain tries to rein the head in; in a race-
, horse the same appears to be attended, in his speed at hut,
with advantage.
The most undesirable form of Leek of all others is what is
called the ewe neck. Very often this is a natural deformity,
appearing to consist in eztension of the dip or reversed are of
the cervical portion of the spine: oftener, however, I believe,
it will be found to ewe its production to the harsh and fruitless
efforu of art " to get the head up or in," when the
neck is of that description that will not, naturally, admit of
it. Such constrained erect position of the neck and head is
not only exceeding unsightly, but is irksome to the horse,
and to his rider as well, who has, by continual workings
with his bridle-hand, to keep the head in this forced erect
posture It is of no use trying by biting or riding, or any
cosine of menage, to alter a natural ewe-neck : no pains or
perseverance can ever render a horse eo formed pleasant to
ride.

The History of Greece Irons the Earliest Period to Me
Roman Conquest. By Miss Coanaa. Dean sad Sea.
The authoress of this volume is sufficiently known
for her numerous histories "adapted for schools and
families." It is fortunate that women can be found
sufficiently skilled in autborcraft to undertake such
literary journeywork, for, in the hands of a lady, his-
tory can scarcely be told with the grossness which
often otherwise attaches to it. With feminine d‘i-
eacT Miss Corner omits what should be omitted,
giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character-
istic features that mark the progress of a nation. In
the present specimen of her series she has followed the
example of Grote rather than that of his predecessors,
and has given only the slightest possible amount of
mytholigioal webs that are entangled with the narra-
tive of bete in other histories of classic Greece.

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