she had forbidden the members of her occasions in the cause of humanity, so family to visit her of an evening; and la Mère Galipaux would have sojourned as, owing to her immense gifts and in plague-stricken places and fever masculine strength of character, her haunts if, thereby, she could have lesauthority was almost patriarchal, none sened, by one iota, the distressing total dared to disobey her in the matter. of diseases and ills that menace her The old medicine-woman was no re- fellow-creatures throughout the natural specter of persons, or rather, of the term of their lives. privileged among the animal species. Perhaps on that account, when she She did not see why there should be died, the crowd of mourners who folone rule for the spirited race-horse, and lowed her to her tomb was so great that another for the costermonger's donkey; the traffic in the Boulevard Clichy was nor why white mice should be tended temporarily suspended, and the great and coddled by children in wicker deserted Montmartre Cemetery was cages, and their cousins the field-mice populous for the space of half an hour. cruelly exterminated. For her there were no grades in the divine order of life, whose dim beginnings in the creeping things and batrachia seem so repulsive to frivolous natures. She belonged to the race of healers in her humble way, as surely as Hippocrates, Claude Bernard, and Jenner did in theirs; and even as these great men would have imperilled their lives on all

Had la Mère Galipaux been the dean of the Academy of Medicine, she could not have received a warmer tribute to her memory than this spontaneous popular testimony, more eloquent in its undemonstrative fervor than the most polished funeral sermon preached by a fashionable deacon, or a volley of guns fired over her grave.

THE WORK OF DISINFECTION IN LON- to be provided free of charge by every saniDON. -- From a return just prepared by the tary authority for housing those who are medical officer of health of the London compelled to leave their homes whilst the Council, it appears that sixteen sanitary process of disinfection is going on. So far authorities have provided themselves with this provision has not been carried out in disinfecting apparatus, in which disinfec- every district; in fact, by only thirteen out tion is effected by steam; fourteen authori- of the forty sanitary authorities. What ties possess apparatus in which disinfection accommodation has been provided is open is effected by dry heat; and eleven authori- to improvement; in a few instances only is ties have arranged with a contractor by the accommodation provided for use by whom steam is used. It is hoped dry heat night as well as by day. Shelter by night, apparatus will soon be entirely superseded however, must be provided for in all cases, by steam apparatus. The arrangements as the time occupied in the purification of with a contractor to disinfect are not quite the room-often the only room of the satisfactory, on the ground that this duty family-extends to many hours. Provision should not be in other hands than those for baths to be used by those coming from who are responsible for the prevention of infected houses should also be ensured. It disease. It would be a good thing and is said that so far poor people are unwilling more economical, the medical officer shows, to use the accommodation thus provided, if districts were to combine in the manner but when they find it really meets their provided by the Public Health (London) convenience this is not likely to continue. Act, and find suitable sites for the erection But the shelters must be made reasonably of disinfecting apparatus in central districts attractive, or objections to them will never of London. Section 60 of the Public Health, be overcome. (London) Act requires a temporary shelter

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A PHILISTINE CONFESSION. FROM the rock-crown of a long woodland FAIN would I sing in minor key of woe, hill, In modern fashion, could I only banish We watched the grandeur of the sunset The sunshine from my heart: 'tis quite blaze

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From The London Quarterly Review.
AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS.1

the title-page, in striking contrast with her Paris-made costume, in the height of the hideous fashion of 1870, or thereabouts.

"VERY Soon after my arrival in Egypt," writes Miss Chennels, in her introduction to these volumes, “I had The story of this poor child's short occasion to observe that the opinion life reminds one often of the proverbial prevalent among Mohammedans was disadvantages of sewing new cloth on that it was a disgrace to any woman old garments. The instincts of freefor her face to be seen, or her name dom, energy, and self-improvement imto be heard bond the walls of the parted by an English education were harem." It in deference to this inevitably and hopelessly at strife with prejudice that the publication of her the harem life of seclusion, idleness, "Recollections" was delayed till not mental and moral stagnation, to which only her royal pupil, but the children the customs of the East condemned her who shared her studies and pleasures, as soon as her childhood was over. were in their graves. Not that they The pathetic human interest which contain the faintest touch of scandal, thus attaches to the subject of Miss the slightest hint of indiscreet revela- Chennels's Recollections" is accention. The social life of the Khedive tuated by the fact that the narrator is Ismail and his family is painted in the obviously not writing for effect. She fairest colors, and the impression one sets down everything as it comes-picgains of him from these pages is that nics to the Pyramids and the humors of an amiable, somewhat over-indul- of Bairam, visits to the royal ladies, gent paterfamilias, scarcely to be rec-impertinences of the Arab servants, ognized as the "Oriental despot with a reflections on the slavery question, and Parisian veneer,' 11 2 "whose strength notes on the Cairo bazaars, with small of will and perverse fertility of re- care for any order beyond the chronosource enabled him to maintain a pow-logical. But this only increases the erful despotism in spite of general impression of exactitude and good faith discredit and impending bankruptcy, that grows on one as one reads. The and to baffle all the efforts of European author's view of things is open to the diplomacy to make him govern on ra- reproach of being a little "set" and tional principles." conventional; the minor discomforts of Miss Chennels, in her notes and Eastern life take up a somewhat disprocomments on what she saw, restricts portionate place in her narrative; but herself carefully to her role of govern- she is throughout clear-sighted, sensiess; and though her narrative affords ble, not without perception of the now and then a side-light, "significant humorous; and the very profusion of of much," on the character of Ismail and the nature of his administration, yet its principal value consists in the almost photographic clearness and accuracy of the picture it gives of the private life of Mohammedan ladies of high rank just beginning to experience the disturbing influence of Western ideas. It is a drama of the clash of two civilizations; and the protagonist is the little princess, whose sweet, wistful face, with the soft, Oriental features, looks out of the photograph facing

detail in which she indulges on the subject of her privations, helps one to realize how difficult it must be to educate a set of people so undisciplined, so idle, so ignorant of the value of time or the force of a promise, as those with whom she had to do, into any adequate conception of order, rectitude, and public duty.

Miss Chennels entered upon her duties in October, 1871. The educational staff of the Khedive Ismail's household then consisted of a Mr. Freeland, who acted as the tutor of Ismail's Miss Chennels, Two vols. W. Blackwood & Sons, fourth son, Ibrahim Pasha, Mr. Michell, the assistant tutor, and the Princess

1 Recollections of an Egyptian Princess.

2 England in Egypt, by Alfred Milner.

By

Zeyneb's governess. Mr. Freeland had of the khedive consisted of his three his wife and children with him. They wives, called by Europeans the first, all resided together in a large house in second, and third princess, and their a fashionable suburb of Cairo, and children. These ladies had each her their pupils were brought to them every separate suite of apartments, and lived day. The description of the princess's together, we are told, in perfect amity. arrival on the morning of her introduc- Ibrahim Pasha and the Princess Zeytion to Miss Chennels affords an in- neb were the children of the second stance of the way in which the old and princess. They spent the greater part the new jostle each other in this of their time at Mr. Freeland's house, strangest of all lands. "She came in associating with his waren and with an English carriage, driven by an En- each other in lessons and play, exactly glish coachman, with an English foot- like European children of the same man on the box;" while before the age. But the yoke of Mohammedan carriage two syces, or running footmen, custom was only lifted in private. The in long, white robes with staff in hand, brother and sister always came and like those who cried "Bow the knee" went separately, as public opinion before the chariot of Joseph, cleared would have been outraged had they the way for the distinguished occupant. been seen together out of doors. Ismail Pasha, thoroughly Oriental as The princess was accompanied by Zohrab Bey, an American physician, and a pretty was the groundwork of his character, little Circassian girl, named Kopsès, the seems to have done his best to Eurosharer of her studies and amusements, of peanize his court. Indeed, his fancy about the same age as the princess, or per- for foreigners of every description, and haps a little older. The latter came shyly the readiness with which he yielded to to me and Zohrab Bey stayed some time, the most preposterous claim, if prethat she might become familiarized with sented by a European, formed a heavy me. She was rather short in stature, but indictment against his administration. her face was very pretty, regular features, In his time, says the author of "Ensoft brown eyes (which she had a trick of screwing up), and long eyelashes, well- gland in Egypt," his province was " the shaped head, and very good hair. . . . On happy hunting-ground" of financiers account of ill health, she was rather back-and promoters of the shadiest descripward in her studies, and was painfully tion. Foreign diplomatic agents used aware of her deficiencies. Gentle and timid their influence to obtain from poor, to a fault, she was of a character that weak Egypt the payment of the most developed late and required great en- preposterous demands. "Please shut couragement. Her admiration for her little that window," Ismail Pasha said once, companion was unbounded, without a shade during an interview with some Euroof jealousy. The latter was indeed a re-pean concessionaire, "for if this genmarkable child, and well worthy the love of tleman catches cold it will cost me her little mistress. She was also small in £10,000." stature, but slim and agile as a young fawn. She excelled in everything that she attempted, and learned all that she was taught with ease and exactness; but it would have been a false kindness to cultivate her powers according to their capability, at the risk of exciting ill feeling on the part of the princess, on whom she was wholly dependent. She was very lively, but wonderfully reticent in all concerning the inner life of the harem. She had the greatest influence over her little mistress, but it was always exerted for good.

His susceptibility to foreign influence was not wholly to be deplored, since it prompted him to make some provision for the education of girls. The curriculum in the schools which he established included, not merely instruction in the ordinary branches of knowledge, but training in all the arts of household management. Unfortunately, these institutions were planned on so extravagant a scale that it was impossible to increase their number to an extent at At the time of Miss Chennels's ar- all commensurate with the needs of the rival in Egypt the official household population. Miss Chennels credits him