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Rh pany of friends on an Eastern tour of pleasure and observation. The trip included Egypt, Palestine, and Arabia. What good use she made of her eyes and ears—or perhaps I ought to say ear-trumpet—during that tour is attested by the charming and interesting book of travel which she wrote and published after her return, entitled “Eastern Life, Past and Present,” a book of which a writer (C. W. S.), in a recent number of the Toledo Index, says: "The book of all others that has seemed nearest to a revelation to me is Miss Martineau's “Eastern Life,” a work which would probably have made a profound sensation in the literary world if it had not been published some thirty years ago, before that world was ripe for its reception. It contains a charming account of the author's travels with some highly cultivated friends in Egypt and Palestine, with a most instructive essay on the life and purposes of Moses, and his dealings with the Israelites of old, and a wonderful history of ancient Egypt. I took