text: ) is principally devoted to political disquisitions with an episode on lunatic asylums and the medical academy of Galata Serai while only a few pages are occupied by the subject implied in the title; which is treated at greater length and illustrated by the _proces-verbaux_ of several criminal trials at the end of the second volume where it is brought in as a digression from the slavery laws on the point of the admissibility of a slave's evidence! But without following Mr White further through the slipper-market the poultry-market the coffee-shops and tobacco-shops the fruit and flower market the Ozoon Tcharshy or long market devoted to the sale of articles of dress and household furniture _cum multis aliis_; it will suffice to say that there is no article whatever either of luxury or use sold in Constantinople from diamonds to old clothes of which some account with the locality in which it is procurable is not to be found in some part or other of his volumes