text:  notes they are avowedly taken; being introduced (as Mrs Poole with much _naivete_ confesses) "in the hope of obtaining a more favourable reception for her letters for the sake of the more solid matter with which they are interspersed;" but though they certainly convey much valuable additional information to the readers of the "Modern Egyptians " they are scarcely "germane to the matter " as interpolations in the work of a lady