LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
MARCH, 1873.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by J. B.Lippincott & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, atWashington.
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Contents.
THE ROUMI IN KABYLIA.
THE NATIONAL TRANS-ALLEGHANY WATER-WAY.
A PRINCESS OF THULE.
WINTER.
NEW WASHINGTON.
IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP.
HER CHANCE.
CUBA.
PROBATIONER LEONHARD;
UNSETTLED POINTS OF ETIQUETTE.
THE HERMIT'S VIGIL.
CHATEAUBRIAND'S DUCKS.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
NOTES.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
Books Received.
THE ROUMI IN KABYLIA.
ALGIERS FROM THE SEA.A fact need not be a fixed fact to be a very positive one; and Kabylia,a region to whose outline no geographer could give precision, has longexisted as the most uncomfortable reality in colonial France.Irreconcilable Kabylia, hovering as a sort of thunderous cloudland amongthe peaks of the Atlas Mountains, is respected for a capacity it has ofrolling out storms of desperate warriors. These troops disgust andconfound the French by making every hut and house a fortress: like theclansmen of Roderick Dhu, they lurk behind the bushes, animating eachtree or shrub with a preposterous gun charged with a badly-mouldedbullet. The Kabyle, when excited to battle, goes to his death ascarelessly as to his breakfast: his saint or marabout has promised himan immediate heaven, without the critical formality of a judgment-day.He fights with more than feudal faithfulness and with undivertedtenacity. He is in his nature unconquerable. So that the French, though[Pg 250]they have riddled this thunder-cloud of a Kabylia with their shot,seamed it through and through with military roads, and established abeautiful fort national right in the middle of it, on the plateau ofSouk-el-Arba, possess it to-day about as thoroughly as we Americansmight possess a desirable thunder-storm which should be observed hangingover Washington, and which we should annex by means of electricalcommunications transpiercing it in every direction, and a residentgovernor fixed at the centre in a ball