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Show 0 .J "--( u Ptolemy I, before Christ wa: born; it suggests the most beautiful city of antiquity, and the chief center of learning and literature; it suggests ']em ens and Origen among teachers: and magnificent libraries and mus t1111S; and 'lcopatra, ~who COnquered julius ('~LCSar, the WOrld'._ conqueror, and who made l\larcus \ntony do hc1· bidding for fourteen years. The glory of .\lcxandria is past. \'cry, ycry little remains there to remind one of her former self, and the lo,·cr of hi . tory should not :;cck i 1 vain for the cause of her decadence and death. The chief memento of }\ lexandria's past is "Pompey'. Pillar," which is said to have been erected during the third century, in memory of Dioclctian, who sent a large amount of grain there to reli e,·c a famine. \ \ ' e reached this ld-new city early unclay morn in n·, ).I arch lOth, and were not long in discoverino· that we were far, far from home. The red Fez, the peculiar clothing, and the seeming babel of tongues were quite sufficient to inform thi. t\merican that an interpreter was necessary For a few moments. \ fter the usual formalitic. of landing. vve were soon found ahoarcl an l~g-yptian train speeding tovvarcl ·airo. l~very moment was interesting ancl filled with deep solicitude. Everywhere were cYidcncc of strange lands: the railway carriages; the tall palm trees; the ubiquitous donkey: the dirty and ungainly camel; the mud villages-everything ancl everywhere t >ld us we were far from home, even in Egypt, the home of the Pharaohs and Ptolemies: where ).loses was born and .Joseph found plenty; whet·c 'ca. ar ruled everybody, except 'leopatra. and \\'here Antony played the fool' part. Egypt, the " 'radlc of 'ivilization." and the untimely grave into which T'aK<' Nineteen |
