text: " On one occasion an old woman to punish her little grandson for a trifling theft had employed the services of a professional _beater_ who had tied the child's legs and arms and was beating him with a ponderous stick while his grandmother cried "again!" and only desisted on a peremptory remonstrance from Mr Lane; yet the same woman disturbed the neighbourhood with her lamentations every alternate Monday for the loss of her son the little boy's father! It is perhaps hardly fair to cite instances of brutality like this to which our own police-offices afford abundance of parallels as examples of the national manners of Egypt; and Mrs Poole does full justice to the spirit of mutual aid which prevails among the poor in all Moslem countries and teaches them "to bear each other's burdens