The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-22 00:00:00

some such drag-chain on his movement!, v
mond might really put his threats into executt°l
is a shrewd, quiet, delicate trait of charade'
worthy even of Shakspeare or Scott.
I I" Since I am allowed, Dora, to speak to you
brother -."

" Who allowed you, Sir ?" interrupted Dora.
" Your father, Dora."
My father can not, shall not ! Nobody but 01,
can make any man my brother—nobody but torelf '
allow any man to call himself my brother." 1 01
" I am sorry I pre,unied so far, Miss O'Sbane°"*"
only going to offer one word of advice." 0
" I want no advice--I will take none from you; fro
" You shall have none, Madam, henceforward,
Harry Ormond."

"'Tie well Sir. Come away, Sheelah." kelsb,
" Oh ! wait dear—Och ! I am to old," said S'; for
groaning as she rose slowly. " I'm too slow entire!'
these quick passions."
" Passions !" cried Dora, growing scarlet BL'altb?'
in an instant : " what do you mean by passions, Sliefr 1
" I mean changes," said Sheelah, " change!, de'r;pf
am now ready—where's my stick ? Thank you,
Harry. Only I say I can't change nay quarters and°
so quick as you, dear."
" Well, well, lean on me," said Dora, impatientiPorri
" Don't hurry, poor Sheelah—no necessity tO fel
away from me," said Ormond, who had stood for bo,l I
moments like one transfixed. "'Tie for me to go-100
will go as fast and as far as you please, Dora, asysY
you and for ever."
" For ever !" said Dora: " what do you mean ?'' tot,
" Away from the Black Islands ? he can't mean

said Sheelah.
" Why not ?—Did not I leave Castle Hermitage
moment's warning ?"
110
" Warning ! Nonsense !" cried Dora "lean 0°
~bere
O J
Sheelah—be has frightened you ; lean on him, co 3
—sure he's better than your stick. Warning !1"00
did you find tha• pretty word? Is Harry °mos°
turned footman ?"

EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY, fife
XI-IL, _VI V.—A34314. EDINBURGH, lBS5'
The history of which these volumes treattli4'
often been the theme of elaborate discuss's
among the best writers., but is nevertheless
of those enchaining subjects of which the rnli'v
never wearies. Arabia ! The very word fillslles
imagination. We think of the earlier 111111,11,
of Scripture, and the scarcely less miraco`°i,
triumphs of Mahomet; of the gorgeous 1114'1011
ficence and unequalled victories of his cs1;10(1
successors ; of Vathek the Wonderful, $,
Al-Raschid the Enlightened, with his inc°
parable Queen Scheherezade—a fiction, 13/Ijl
yet how real !—of the holy cities of Mecca iv
Medina, which Burckhardt, with his
sketches, has placed so vividly before us; 3n v.:
turning from historical and legendary, to
recollections—of the deceitful mirrhage arid j;
blasting simoom ; of oceans of burning s3ild
of sudden whirlwinds, that once overwhelll3,,
an army, and still overwhelm whole cars/3.0;
of green, sunny oases, glittering with fountsloo
and alive with the music of birds, that btirs
the weary traveller's eye, like gleams of Farlijoi
on the visions of a saint ;—to speak, to so
but of Arabia, is at once to recall these on
so
thousand other equally striking associate all
Mr. Crichton, in the volumes before us, 0
sauwbajreect,ohf
asthtereaitnetdereitstwiathndalilmbpeofirtttainnegereosfili:
He has not slurred it over, as if engaged
mere bookseller's job ; but ransacked author,
ny
rweeciognhceitliadthtehecodnisflcircetpinagnctieesstiomfonmieasnyofatrpauvzeziolie
legend—in a word, has done his best.
task was one of vast labour, but a willing 5131;i0
was at work at it, and has carried
gl)
triumphantly through. His details of the e
life of Mahomet, when, undisturbed by dresi
of fanaticism, he was merely the lowly and Poilj
lover of Kadijah—that paragon of widowssp
wives, the Josephine of the Arabian NaP°lepd
though unlike her, loved to the last---allsiclt
in interesting matters, for the best part of `ccill
Mr. Crichton has been indebted to Sale, ariollh
more to the researches of the late Charles `',,,f,tt
whose " History of Mahometanisin" is is'ord4
the best book of the sort extant. Burci‘4oce/I
in like manner, and in one or two insjt"
Bankes and Buckingham, have supPlie`hig
of
with the materials for his descripti°l" ,01
the local scenes, ruins, and gengll` b 0
peculiarities of Arabia; while Gab° h 0
supplied him with a few hints, and taughsol3;
where to look for fuller information on t'be
ject of Arabian literature, and more espeel tisle
its algebraic discoveries. To those wb°lvottitif
not time to peruse the whole work, we tee
recommend the chapter entitled the " Os.
the Wahabees,"—one of the most extra°rcl,;
Aeto.
sects now existing in the world—the tA orw,
whose moral influence over the lawless sonse
desert, possess all the fascination of rornailer'elish
will enable the reader to enter with More otiOf
than ever into the vivid descriptions of the ef
of " Anastasius"—the most magnificent sv,o tbis
fiction, despite its dull attempts at nit, 1
or any language.

CABINET CY CLOPiED.L4. ivar
The forty-seventh number of this useilltise 4/f;
consists of the first volume of a " Tr
nstitd
the Arts, Manufactures, Manners, and CO',eij
tions of the Greeks and Romans." The scll)'
volume, it is announced, is to be devoted 10°'
livelythe
mann
ers, and
laws,customs
of the ancients'
literature, philos op h Y bitre
cii y
first, now before us, although professew co'
scribing their arts and manufactures ($,,0'i,,,11.
tains incidental particulars of other matt°. co"-:
be dr)
greatest interest. It appears to have - st
piled with the greatest care, and at al°-
tO
hibe
page a cloud of authorities are quote'
r, 01ld
the learned may refer for confirmati°h- sll°' I)
statements here made. A work Whirls 101°0,,
condense into a popular form all that Id 103,
of the state of the arts, manufactures, ,
r
ners among the ancients has been I°l"s° ffrhe
and Dr. Larduer's book well supPlies.s th't eteo
If we have any complaint to make 4 not #
ha tioo
part relating to ancient architecture ..--s et).
somewhat more curtailed. Several reP ;hey,
naes ~ e6'
occur in it, and there are man); t—fessi
might be reduced to a summary 01 3 6 1•0 g,
At present it might perhaps weary Y°uo"l,„
and the greater part of readers are 11 mailer ,tg
COr 1‘
the.
But we will not complain, for dory
a tremendous task before him ; and -
of 1' is ll be...00f
easy to say that a particular part u
might have been more condenseti, it sov
t °f Is
difficult for most to imagine the "te