Lady Hester Stanhope This article reprints a description of the late Lady Hester Stanhope from a work published by Harpers called <cite>The Land and the Book; or, Biblical Illustrations, Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land.  By W.M. Thompson, D.D.; Twenty-five Years a Missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. in Syria and Palenstine.  New York </cite>.