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PREFACE
HAVE to thank my friend Stanley Lane-Poole, Professor
of Arabic at Trinity College, Dublin, and Messrs.
J. M. Dent & Co., for the permission to print at the end of
my book Prof. Lane-Poole's admirable Chronological Table
of the Rulers and Monuments of MedijEval Cairo which
appeared in his indispensable little volume. The Story of
Cairo in Dent's Medieval Towns Series. It will be found
most useful, because it gives a summary of the chief medieval
buildings of Cairo.
The list of Artists' Bits in Cairo, with directions how to
find them, on p. 361, will, I hope, be found helpful by painters
and the great army of kodakers. The illustrations for this
book are all of them enlargements of photographs taken by
myself with a No. la folding kodak.
And many people will, I think, be grateful for my pointing
out to them the new facilities for getting to Egypt afforded by
the combination of Thomas Cook & Son with the P. and O.
Company, which I have tabulated on p. 351.
The types described in my various chapters on street life
in Cairo are depicted inimitably in Mr. Lance Thackeray's
new book, TJie. People of Egypt, published by A. & C.
Black, too late for me to mention it in the text of my book.
They could not have fitted my text more completely if they
had been executed for it. No one ever caught the humours
of the Egyptian life so faithfully as Mr. Thackeray, and now
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