Review of reviews and world's work . * for resoluteaction on the part of the Prime Minister. 202 THE REy/ElV OF REVIEWS. I THE LATE Blackwoods Magazine for February Mr. Fran-cis Scudamore has an article on TroubledEgypt and the Late Khedive. He recalls the factthat Tewfik Pasha was the son of a peasant girlwho was a slave in the house of Ishmail was not one of the ladies of the harem, but a :;^^ THE LATE KHEDIVE OF EGYPT. domestic employed in some light menial capacityin the household. As, however, she bore a son, shehad a right to the vacant place of fourth
Review of reviews and world's work . * for resoluteaction on the part of the Prime Minister. 202 THE REy/ElV OF REVIEWS. I THE LATE Blackwoods Magazine for February Mr. Fran-cis Scudamore has an article on TroubledEgypt and the Late Khedive. He recalls the factthat Tewfik Pasha was the son of a peasant girlwho was a slave in the house of Ishmail was not one of the ladies of the harem, but a :;^^ THE LATE KHEDIVE OF EGYPT. domestic employed in some light menial capacityin the household. As, however, she bore a son, shehad a right to the vacant place of fourth disliked her, bvit he could not put her Ishmail left Egypt, making room for his sonTewfik, he carried with him thirty great chests ofjewels, £150,000 in gold for his immediate neces-sities and accompanied by seventy ladies of hisharem and a regiment of followers. Mr. Scudamore asserts that every night in theearly part of 1882 Arabi tortured his Circassianprisoners. He says: Arabi visited them inprison, and sought to obtain by torture evidencethat would enable him to take the life of his en-emy, Osman Rifky. Many tragedies have been en-acted in Egypt, but it is difficult to believe thatany more hideous brutality has ever been practisedso near our own day than that which this lieartlessand cold-blooded peasant directed each evening inthe Abdin prison. At length the Khedive stepped in between Arabi a
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