Twelve Months with the Bashi.Razouks, by Edward Money (New- man),
is the second edition of a book which was published about twonty-throo years ago. It would be worth reading, if it wore only for the sake of seeing what a vast amount of money we are apt to waste, when we are possessed with the idea that something mast be done. This Bashi-Bazouk force, which we cannot make out to have been of any use, was paid With royal liberality, the English adjutant getting about MO a year, with rations and forage for three chargers and a baggage-pony. The troopers were bettor paid than our men, and got their money regularly, and in good English coin. It would have been easy, at this rate, to have enlisted all Asia under our Colours. But, apart from this, Mr. Money's is an interesting book ; it gives a curious picture of one phase of Oriental life, and was certainly worth republishing.
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