IN the winter and spring of 1875 the writer made the tour of Egypt and the Levant. The first portion of the journey is described in a volume published last summer, entitled "My Winter on the Nile, among Mummies and Moslems"; the second in the following pages. The notes of the journey were taken and the books were written before there were any signs of the present Oriental disturbances¹, and the observations made are therefore uncolored by any expectation of the existing state of affairs. Signs enough were visible of a transition period, extraordinary but hopeful; with the existence of poverty, oppression, superstition², and ignorance were mingling³ Occidental and Christian⁴ influences, the faint beginnings of a revival⁵ of learning and the stronger pulsations of awakening⁶ commercial and industrial life. The best hope of this revival was their, as it is now, in peace and not in war.
C. D. W.

Hartford, November 10,1876.

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