The "arabian Nights" Once More

A large part of Cairo is very little poiled. It is still, to a great degree, ixe city of the "Arabian Nights. " The worst injury was done before England took the reins, for it was Ismail who recklessly ran streets through raosques and anoient palaces in order to make a straight drive to the citadel. In the Boulevard Mohammed Aly we certainly ind the oddest jnmble of east and west, old and iiew. For example, jnst opposite the stately mosqneof Sultan Hasan, at the heati of this onsightly street, you see a cabaret with the sign board, "Grog Shop For Army and Navy;" next door a Moslem school, as the inscription, "Medresseh Mohammediyeh, " shows. Across the road stands the shapeless mass of the unfinished Rifa'iyeh xnosqne, ereoted at the cost of L350,000 by the mother of Ismail, and within those unroofed walls, Burrounded by rotting scaffolding, ies the body of toe princely borrower himself. Under the shadow of Sultan Hasan an Arab barber is cutting hair with a modern clipping machine. A gayly painted harim carriage stands in the road. On the panel is a sham coat of arms. Solemn sheikhe pass by without any sort of emotion at these queer sights. Overhead the oitadel guns boom out a salute, for it is the