Chapter I: Preface

In this new publication, consisting chiefly of articles which appeared in the _Christian World_, the _Echo_, and the _East Anglian Daily Times_, the author makes no pretence to original information, or to have acted the part of an antiquarian explorer. He has simply gone over ground familiar to many, and to which all holiday-makers will turn in increasing numbers, partly for pleasure, and partly on account of the absorbing interest attaching to the route here briefly described. To such he offers his services as guide, philosopher and friend, trusting also that many who stay at home may be interested in the story here told.

With regard to the illustrations, the author acknowledges the kindness of Dr. Lunn and Messrs. Cassell in allowing him the use of them, and especially is grateful to Miss Pollard, the daughter of the author of that valuable work, ‘The Land of the Monuments,’ for permission to use her sketch ‘Dawn on the Great Sphinx,’ which he has utilized for his frontispiece.

CLACTON-ON-SEA.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A RUN ACROSS FRANCE 1
II. OFF TO NAPLES 7
III. NAPLES OF TO-DAY 13
IV. POMPEII AND VESUVIUS 23
V. THE ISLES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN 33
VI. ABOUT ATHENS 41
VII. CONSTANTINOPLE 54
VIII. SMYRNA 71
IX. JAFFA TO JERUSALEM 77
X. THE HOLY CITY 84
XI. BETHLEHEM 103
XII. THE JEW IN JERUSALEM 110
XIII. ALEXANDRIA 124
XIV. IN CAIRO 135
XV. THE PYRAMIDS AND THE SPHINX 153
XVI. THE RIVER NILE 164
XVII. THE RETURN TO MARSEILLES 172
XVIII. AVIGNON 186
XIX. THE GREAT CITY OF LYONS 194
XX. DIJON, OR THE WINE COUNTRY 206
XXI. BOOKS OF REFERENCE 214

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE DAWN ON THE GREAT SPHINX _Frontispiece_ TWO-BERTH CABIN, ‘MIDNIGHT SUN’ 4 THE BAY OF NAPLES 19 TEMPLE OF VENUS, POMPEII 27 THE CORINTH CANAL 38 TEMPLE OF VICTORY 47 THE PARTHENON 49 A BUSY STREET IN CONSTANTINOPLE 56 A MOSQUE ON THE BOSPHORUS 58 THE QUAY, CONSTANTINOPLE 60 GALATA BRIDGE, CONSTANTINOPLE 65 AN OLD STREET, CONSTANTINOPLE 67 THE GATE OF PERSECUTION, NEAR EPHESUS 73 JERUSALEM: VIA DOLOROSA AND PONTIUS PILATE’S HOUSE 79 VIEW FROM ST. STEPHEN’S GATE, WITH RUSSIAN CHURCH AND 81 GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE GENERAL VIEW OF JERUSALEM FROM THE CONVENT OF THE SISTERS 93 OF ZION THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE 95 BETHLEHEM 105 POMPEY’S PILLAR, ALEXANDRIA 126 GENERAL VIEW OF CAIRO 136 A STREET IN CAIRO 137 TOMB OF THE CALIPHS OF CAIRO 139 DONKEY-BOY, CAIRO 142 COLOSSAL STATUE OF RAMESES II. 154 PYRAMID AND SPHINX 156 THE GREAT SPHINX 157 A TOURIST STEAMER—COOK’S NILE FLOTILLA 169 THE NEW HARBOUR, MARSEILLES 173 MARSEILLES 175 THE CASTLE OF THE POPES, AVIGNON 189 THE PLACE BELLECOUR, LYONS 197