Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . arge enough to call for reflection, whenthe question of occupation and improvement of a half-civilized land elsewhere is under discussion. The Eng-lish put down the revolt, and sent Arabi to Ceylon, asmall Napoleon at St. Helena. The rebel colonel and hisfellow-exiles are at present enjoying those spicy breezeswhich are associated in our minds with foreign missionsand a whole congregation singing (and dragging themfearfully) the celebrated verses. Arabi has complainedof the climate in spite of the perfumes, and it is saidthat he is to be transferred to some other poi
Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . arge enough to call for reflection, whenthe question of occupation and improvement of a half-civilized land elsewhere is under discussion. The Eng-lish put down the revolt, and sent Arabi to Ceylon, asmall Napoleon at St. Helena. The rebel colonel and hisfellow-exiles are at present enjoying those spicy breezeswhich are associated in our minds with foreign missionsand a whole congregation singing (and dragging themfearfully) the celebrated verses. Arabi has complainedof the climate in spite of the perfumes, and it is saidthat he is to be transferred to some other point in theocean; there are, indeed, many of them well adapted forthe purpose. The English newspapers of to-day aredotted with the word shadowed, which signifies, ap-parently, that certain persons in Ireland are followed soclosely by a policeman that the official might be theshadow. Possibly the melancholy Khedive is shadowedby the memory of the exile of Ceylon. For Tufik didnot cast his lot with Arabi. He turned towards the. AN EGYPTIAN DANCING-GIRL 261 English. To use the word again, though with anothersignification, though ruler still, he has but a shadowypower. THE ARAB MUSEUM Near the city gate named the Help of God, on thenortheastern border of Cairo, is the old mosque ElHakim. Save its outer walls, which enclose, like themosques of Touloun and Amer, a large open square,there is not much left of it; but within this square,housed in a temporary building, one finds the collec-tion of Saracenic antiquities which is called the ArabMuseum. This museum is interesting, and it ought to be beau-tiful. But somehow it is not. The barrack-like walls,sparsely ornamented with relics from the mosques, thestraight aisles and glass show-cases, are not inspiring;the fragments of Arabian wood-carving seem to be la-menting their fate; and the only room which is notdesolate is the one where old tiles lie in disorder uponthe floor, much as they lie on broken marble pavementsof the ancient houses
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