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r. CURTIS, have been republished in London by Bentley, and the book is as much approved by English as by American critics. The _Daily News_ says: "The author is evidently a man of great talent." Leigh Hunt, in his _Journal_, that-- "It is brilliant book, full of thought and feeling." The _Athenaeum_, that-- "The author of _Nile Notes_, we may now add, is richly poetical, humorous, eloquent, and glowing as the sun, whose southern radiance seems to burn upon his page. An affluence of fancy which never fails, a choice of language which chastens splendor of expression by the use of simple idioms, a love for the forms of art whether old or new, and a passionate enjoyment of external nature such as belongs to the more poetic order of minds--are the chief characteristics of this writer." The _Literary Gazette_-- "The genial and kindly spirit of this book, the humor and vivacity of personal descriptions, redeemed by an exquisite choice of expression from the least taint of the common or the coarse; the occasional melody and music of the diction, cadenced, as it were, by the very grace and tenderness of the thought it clothes, or the images of beauty it evokes; the broad, easy touches, revealing as at a glance the majestic and tranquil features of the Eastern landscape, and the ultimate feeling of all its accessories of form and hue; the varied resources of learning, tradition, poetry, romance, with which it is not encumbered but enriched, as a banquet table with festal crowns and sparkling wines--all these, and many other characteristics, to which our space forbids us to do justice, render these 'Nile Notes' quite distinct from all former books of Eastern travel, and worthy 'to occupy the intellect of the thoughtful and the imagination of the lively.' Never did a wanderer resign his whole being with more entire devotion to the silence and the mystery that brood, like the shadow of the ages, over that dead, dumb land. A veritable lotus-eater is our American Howadji!'" And a dozen other London journals might be quoted to the same effect. But critics disagree, as well as doctors, and the Boston _Puritan Recorder_ comes down on the Howadji in the following exemplary manner: "This is a much-vaunted book, by a young American, but one in which we take no pl
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