text:  The title of "_Domestic_ Manners of the Turks "[28] given to the volumes before us can scarcely be considered as a correct designation; since it is not in the privacy of their own families in their harems and among their children (scenes in which it would indeed be rash to challenge comparison with the eloquent author of the _Spirit of the East_ ) that Mr White has depicted the Turks of the present day: but rather in the places "where men most do congregate"--in the _bezestans_ and _tcharshys_ or markets commonly called bazars:[29] in the exercise of the various trades and callings and the intercourse of professional and commercial relations