Egypt - Couverture souple

CHAPTER I A 'VINTER MIDNIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT SPHINX A NIGHT yondrously clear and of a colour unkno,yn to our clinlate; a place of drealnlike aspect, fraught 'with 111ystery. The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illunlines a ,vorld ,vhich surely is no longer ours; for it reselnbles in nothing ,vhat nlay be seen in other lands. A ,vorld in ,vhich everything is suffused ,vith rosy colour beneath the stars of midnight, and ,vhere granite symbols rise up, ghostlike and nl0tionless. Is that a hill of sand that rises yonder? One can scarcely tell, for it has as it ,vere no shape, no outline; rather it seems like a great rosy cloud, or some huge, trembling billow, which once perhaps raised itself there, forth,vith to become motionless for ever .... And from out this kind of mummified ,vave a colossal human effigy emerges, rose-coloured too, a nameless, elusive rose; emerges, and stares with fixed eyes and sll1iles. It is so huge it seems unreal

Table of Contents

CON1'ENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I A VINTER MIDNIGHT REFORE THE GREAT; SPHINX 3; II THE PASSING OF CAIRO I7; III THE MOSQUES OF CAIRO 3 I; IV THE HALL OF THE MUMMIES 43; V A CENTRE OF ISLAM 6 I; VI IN THE TOMBS OF THE Apls 77; VII THE OUTSKIRTS OF CAIRO 93; VIII ARCHAIC CHRISTIANITY lOS; IX THE RACE OF BRONZE II9; X A CHARMING LUNCHEON 131; XI THE DOWNFALL OF THE NILE 149; XII I~ THE TEMPLE OF THE GODDESS OF LOVE; AND JOY 163; XIII MODERN LUXOR 177; XIV A TWENTIETH-CENTURY EVENING AT THEBES 193; · VI Contents; CHAPTER PAGK; XV THEBES BY NIGHT 207; XVI THEBES IN SUNLIGHT 223; XVII AN AUDIENCE OF AMENOPHIS II 237; XVIII AT THEBES IN THE TEMPLE OF THE OGRESS 261; XIX A TOWN PROMPTLY EMBELLISHED 277; XX THE PASSING OF PHILlE 291; INDEX

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Translated from the French by W. P. Baines