BY THE SAME AUTHOR. With Map and 12 Illustrations, 2 vols., crown 8vo, 24s. THE BEDOUIN TRIBES OF THE EUPHRATES. By LADY ANNE BLUNT. Edited, with a Preface and some "The grand-daughter of Lord Byron has here given us a book which, if it does not show that she inherits gifts of the same order as those of her progenitor, speaks plainly as to the possession of other endowments of no common order."-Week. "Lady Anne Blunt can describe with light touches and good effect as well as any English lady that ever aspired to sit in Lady Mary Wortley Montague's saddle. Wherever you take her she is entertaining, and conjures up strong pictures of Bedouin life. Lady Anne's sketches are admirable, and add much to the pleasantness of the narrative."-Tablet. "We have read Lady Anne Blunt's book with a kind of enjoyable amazement. We feel that a review can give but a faint idea of the varied interest of the book. It has matter for every reader. Here are humour, adventure, sport, information about things that are to most people altogether unfamiliar."Saturday Review. "Its portraits are drawn without effort, and with unconscious skill, while from the clear and vivid presentment of the appearance of the country, its nature and resources, the reader sees that these are in rough but evident harmony with the life and character of its inhabitants."-Athenæum. "Lady Anne Blunt and her husband have every taste and qualification for the life of the desert; and very few indeed are the travellers who have seen so much of desert life in Arabia. Lady Anne's book is at times spirited, always unaffected, and in its utter simplicity, resembles Bedouin life."—Academy. "Lady Anne Blunt fitly completes a triad of desert travellers of the gentler sex, with Lady Hester Stanhope and Lady Duff Gordon, uniting the vigour of the one with the femininity of the other. But any comparison between them is impossible, and indeed Lady Anne's work is quite sui generis, no faint praise in these days of many books."-Field. "It is pleasant, among the numbers of wearisome books of travel which are showered upon the public at the present day, to meet with one which is written in a lively and interesting style, and which describes a comparatively unvisited and highly remarkable people. Lady Anne Blunt has a ready and picturesque pen: her diary is neither monotonous nor egotistical; it never sinks to a mere Itinerary, but is constantly enlivened by bright description and anecdote."— Guardian. "A charming and spirited narrative of life among the Bedouins. The journey to Deyra on the Euphrates occupies ten days, inclusive of halts; it is told in plain language, and without straining at effects, is full of useful information on the nature of the country and character of the people, and may be taken as a fair specimen of the whole book."-Pall Mall Gazette. |