_The Story of Cairo_

_First Edition, April_ 1902

_Second Edition, April_ 1906

_All rights reserved_

(BIRKAT-EL-FIL)]

_The Story of_ Cairo

_by Stanley Lane-Poole Litt.D. M.A. Professor of Arabic at Trinity College Dublin_

[Decoration]

_London: J. M. Dent & Co. Aldine House_ 29 _and_ 30 _Bedford Street Covent Garden W.C._ * * 1906

HE WHO HATH NOT SEEN CAIRO HATH NOT SEEN THE WORLD.

HER SOIL IS GOLD;

HER NILE IS A MARVEL;

HER WOMEN ARE AS THE BRIGHT-EYED HOURIS OF PARADISE;

HER HOUSES ARE PALACES, AND HER AIR IS SOFT, WITH AN ODOUR ABOVE ALOES, REFRESHING THE HEART;

AND HOW SHOULD CAIRO BE OTHERWISE, WHEN SHE IS THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD?