The New England magazine . View of the Consular quarters at Bagdad BAGDAD, THE HOME OF SINDBADAND ALADDIN By EDGAR J. BANKS. ONSTANTINOPLE, the mostturbulent city in the world, isofficially known throughoutthe Ottoman Empire as TheAbode of Peace; with thesame sense of the inappropriateness ofthings, Bagdad, one of the filthiest of allOriental towns, is still known as TheGlorious City; yet, in spite of its modernpoverty, its narrow, winding streets, itssqualid mud huts, and the filth of its peo-ple, the Bagdad of Haroun-al-Raschid, of(Scheherazade, of Sindbad the Sailor, and ofAladdin, the city
The New England magazine . View of the Consular quarters at Bagdad BAGDAD, THE HOME OF SINDBADAND ALADDIN By EDGAR J. BANKS. ONSTANTINOPLE, the mostturbulent city in the world, isofficially known throughoutthe Ottoman Empire as TheAbode of Peace; with thesame sense of the inappropriateness ofthings, Bagdad, one of the filthiest of allOriental towns, is still known as TheGlorious City; yet, in spite of its modernpoverty, its narrow, winding streets, itssqualid mud huts, and the filth of its peo-ple, the Bagdad of Haroun-al-Raschid, of(Scheherazade, of Sindbad the Sailor, and ofAladdin, the city in which every boy hasLived over and over again the stories ofThe Arabian Nights, will always be glo-ious. Bagdad is far from the track of the trav-eller; the long journey of nearly a monthacross the Arabian desert, or the still longersea route through the Persian Gulf and fivehundred miles up the Tigris River, is so[difficult or so expensive that hardly a touristof the Cook variety has ever visited it. The historian describes Bagdad as thecreation of the Calif Mansur in 762 ;put in the earliest Assyrian times, ne
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