tion of prophecy with reference to the ten tribes, into which it is impossible to enter. This investigation demands, and (we doubt not) will receive, the attention it deserves from the numerous students of prophecy. The Appendix contains an extended account of the Yezidees, together with a series of important historical facts, which show how widely Christianity was propagated in the East by the Nestorians-even into China-between the third and the sixteenth centuries; and some particulars respecting the unconverted remnant of the ten tribes. Dr. Grant's volume is an important accession to our stores of geographical knowledge, and we hope it will receive—what it richly deserves an extensive circulation and an attentive perusal. The work is illustrated with a map, of which the author (who is now on his way eastward, to resume his benevolent medical and missionary labours) modestly says, that, though it does not pretend to minute accuracy, it will be found to be more correct than any which has preceded it. May his pious anticipation be realized, that "a brighter day is about to dawn upon the remnant of Israel which is left from Assyria, and, through them, upon the Gentile world!" ART. IX.-A Winter in the Azores; and a Summer at the Baths of the Furnas. By JOSEPH BULLAR, M.D., and HENRY BULLAR, of Lincoln's Inn. 2 vols. London: Van Voorst. FOR the first time have we an account of the Azores islands within ten days' sail of our own coast; beautiful in scenery, abundant in every kind of provisions, healthy in climate, most interesting as a spot where even yet lingering remnants of an earlier period of civilization are to be found in their unsophisticated simplicity-affording a trip by no means expensive; and yet no one ever thinks of going there. Few even know more of the islands than their name. One gentleman said he had touched there on his way to Rio Janeiro; another supposed they were near the Bermudas; and the islanders themselves retaliate with as profound an ignorance of Europe. "Who have you there ?" said Dr. Bullar to an Azorean woman, who had stuck up against the wall of her cottage a vile print of Alderman Wood, and which had been still further uglified in the course of its adventures. The owner looked at the atrocious thing for some time in silent embarrassment, and at last, struck by a bright thought, she solemnly replied, "He o diabo !"—It is the devil! The venerable baronet was never taken for so mighty a personage before, and probably will not feel much flattered by it now. The two volumes before us contain an account of the journeyings and voyages of two English gentlemen-one a physician, the other a barrister; and as they have written from the impressions of the time, gone out without the set purpose to make a book, and appear to have been as good-humoured as they certainly were clear-sighted, they have presented us with a work upon which we feel that we may implicitly rely. We shall pass over their voyage from Cowes to St. Michael's, though by no means the most uninteresting part of the narration, and land our travellers fairly at Ponta Delgada, not without danger, however, of a ducking : "The first question we were asked on going into the custom-house of St. Michael's was, Has Mr. Thomson (or some such remarkably named individual) arrived in England?' "The propounder of this simple yet difficult problem was a grave stolid little man, of some forty years of age, who looked up for a reply to his question with all the confiding simplicity of a child; and who, on hearing the unexpected answer, that we really could not say, seemed surprised and almost annoyed at so humiliating a confession of ignorance in the affairs of our own nation. But Humanæ etiam sapientiæ pars est, quædam æquo animo nescire velle.'” After the usual ceremonies at the custom-house, our travellers were introduced by the American consul to a ball, where they found the general aspect of things decidedly European : "There was excellent music, pianos, fiddles, flutes, and fifes; there were glittering chandeliers, bright candelabra, vases of flowers, shining mirrors; there were gay uniforms, bullion epaulettes, long moustachios, of black, sandy, or red; young dandies with long locks, and old gentlemen with stars and orders; there were judges, priests, and barons. What more could be wanted to make a ball all that a ball should be? "The hair of the younger ladies was turned up behind, and fell in front in large and luxuriant ringlets. So far they resembled my countrywomen; but their complexions and cast of features were very different. 'Pretty girls,' light-haired, fair, airy beings, such as England is so abundantly blessed with, there were none; but the proportion of really handsome women was great. "Some would have made pictures; their hair black, glossy, and luxuriant; their eyes full, dark, and unfathomable,' (altogether different from the black sparkling eye, which seems to reflect at once the light which falls upon it). They had fine teeth, which their full lips easily disclosed, and were generally of middle height, well-proportioned, and rather tending to embonpoint. I saw none of those very small waists which so many English women attain to, by great endurance and much patient suffering, "The ladies were lively, talkative, and good-tempered, with intelligent foreheads. They kissed acquaintances of their own sex, on recognizing them, and used the fan like the Spaniards, keeping it in incessant motion, opening and shutting it, and turning it in a thousand different ways, so easily, and, as it seemed, unconsciously, with such a concealment of their art, as was most graceful. Many of the younger ones had learned English, and speak it fluently. Their pronunciation was remarkably good; and there are few pleasanter things among strangers in a strange country, than to hear one's own tongue spoken by women without hesitation, and with only that slight difference in accent and in idiom which gives a freshness even to gossip and tittle-tattle. "There were the usual proportion of ladies past their prime, with turbans, birds of Paradise, and shining silks, and a due sprinkling of conspicuous looking young men, who had happily not attained that age when man suspects himself a fool.' One custom differed from ours, and showed much kindness of feeling. A group of women-servants, with their heads covered with white kerchiefs, were lying upon a part of the staircase, from which they could look at the dancers over the heads of those who stood at the door: and thus they shared in the pleasures of the family." A very graphic description is given of the little town, with its narrow streets and lofty houses. The shops must present a very peculiar appearance to eyes accustomed to the glitter of London or Paris; they are all without windows, and lighted from the door; and the mode by which the trade of the occupier is known, is the antique and simple one of suspending a specimen from a pole over the door;-thus, at one you see a dozen little strips of printed cotton, indicating that a linen-draper may be found within; a little further a bundle of faggots, a few candles, a root or two of garlic, and a bunch of onions, denote the dwelling of a grocer-the distinction between the green-grocer and the grocer, par excellence, not having as yet found its way to the abodes of this primitive people; like the London milkman, his Azorean brother signifies his trade by a red cow; and the barber by a bandaged pole. The wine shops are distinguished by a bush, and the addition of a sprig of box acquaints the passenger with the fact that spirits may also be had within. There was once a time when this same custom, as far as the first sign is concerned, prevailed in England; and the proverb "good wine needs no bush" owes to it its existence. The windows of the first floor are adorned with painted trellices, and sometimes neat iron balconies project before them. This circumstance, together with the dazzling whiteness of the plaister, gives a cheerful air to the streets, and serves in some measure to make up for the want of shops. The carriages are thus described : "A few vehicles, resembling somewhat the old race of hack cabs in London, hung on a long carriage with upright springs, and drawn by two small, spirited horses, with postilions in jack boots, and men in dull liveries, swinging on behind, clattered through the streets with the rattle and jingle of empty post-chaises. Two ladies sat in some of these, dressed in by-gone European fashions: others had a single occupant. Some were closed in by heavy leather flaps and aprons, having two glazed holes, on a level with the rider's eyes. "Pigs and donkeys there were in abundance; the swine unusually large and fat, and the donkeys varying from those wizened and wasted forms that ruddle-men, small green-grocers, and weary' itinerant knife-grinders, belabour and overload in England, to sleek and spirited animals of a size and strength they never attain in our colder climate." Fountains, too, sparkle in the streets, some of which are very picturesque objects; and when blackened, as they sometimes are, by constant damp and splashing, they form, as Dr. Bullar remarks, an admirable back-ground for the gay figures of the thirsty men and graceful girls who drink and lean about them. The politics of the island are far too diverting to be passed over in silence; and we shall, therefore, willingly quote our authors' description of the Azorean Radicals and Conservatives: "Two newspapers are published in this town; and the islanders, it is said, are divided into two parties, which have respectively dubbed one another, 'the cats,' and the pigs;' the pigs being the Conservatives, attached to the constitution of Don Pedro-and the cats the Radicals, who want something more.' The etymology of these words is said to be, but with what truth I know not, as follows:-The name of the leader of the Conservatives is or was Carvalho; which, being at the same time the Portuguese for oak, which bears acorns, whereon swine feed, the Carvalhos were called pigs. The Radicals, on the other hand, adopt for their banner the bearings of the island, on some part of which are a hawk's talons, and thus they have been designated cats; not from their resemblance to this animal in pulling things to pieces, but from the supposed similarity of the cat's claw to the hawk's talon." One of the most singular objects that meets a stranger's eye in the streets of Ponta Delgada is the island cap or carapuça, worn by the native peasantry; this is much more intelligible by means of the clever sketches with which the volumes abound; but as we cannot transfer them to our pages, and think, nevertheless, that a head-dress so singular, and, to our taste, so ugly, might find many admirers and imitators, we will let Dr. Bullar describe it : -: "In shape, the carapuça is somewhat like a jockey cap with an overgrown snout. Thus, the part which fits the head is low and coved, like the velvet cap of huntsman, but is at the same time larger and more solid; the front projects in a long broad crescent, the horns of which are turned up at the sides to a height which, in some instances, reaches far above the crown; and a cape of the same blue cloth with which the crown is covered, overspreading the shoulders, and ending in a long ornamented point half way down the back, is fastened round the lower rim of the cap from one side of the front to the other. It seems as if the peasants might have originally contented themselves with a simple huntsman cap of blue cloth; that they had then sewed on the shoulder cape, to protect them from the rain; that they gradually widened and lengthened the snout or projecting front, until it became eighteen inches broad and nine inches deep; that a fashion among the exquisites, not unlike the pointed-shoe dandyism of Edward the Fourth's time, had strained out the ends to their present extravagant length, and for convenience sake had turned them up into horns, until at length the extravagance ended in the present fantastic head-dress. It is in most instances a picturesque object; becoming some young and well-made men in no ordinary degree, and contrasting well, and sometimes harmonizing with, the light frail handkerchief with which the weaker vessel covers up or foils her expressive beauty. But it varies in form, and appearance, and worth, in all kinds of ways. Two friends, for instance, from different quarters of the island, meet in the market-place of Ponta Delgada: one removes with grave politeness an ample and ponderous carapuça of the finest dark blue broad-cloth, clasped with a shining silver buckle; and the humbler man bows to his wealthier friend with a lighter one of sky blue linsey-wolsey, so patched, and wasted, and wobegone, that the crumpled front canlike the present Portuguese nation-with difficulty support the crown." It is pleasing to hear of the universal civility prevailing among these unsophisticated islanders; the salutations, which walking or driving through the streets are not exactly a sinecure ; and the unvarying respect paid to the female sex—no man, even in a church, thinks of sitting down till every woman, even the poorest, is accommodated. The dress of the female part of the population, when walking, is strictly national; and consists of a dark heavy blue cloak, with a hood stiffened over the head with whalebone or buckram, and which almost conceals the face, save when it is removed for a moment by the hand. A lady told the doctor, that when thus attired, they recognized one another by their shoes, and would stop or pass on, according as the as the passerby was shod in black or primrose. Education is by no means neglected. The following sketch will suffice to show both the manner of teaching adopted, and the sources from which funds are derived :: "In the outskirts of the city we stepped into a cottage, where a sickly man, with sharp pale features and large glistening eyes, was teaching about twenty boys to read. This was one of the schools established under Don Pedro's scheme of national education. "By this scheme, all the poor of the island may, if they please, be |