Chapter I: Foreword

This book contains my own observations and my own deductions from them. The responsibility for them is mine alone. I have never engaged in commercial, educational or missionary work. My interest in the Near and Middle East began with a newspaper assignment, and has continued with curiosity as its motive. This book is the result.

My thanks are due to the proprietors of _Current History_, New York, and _Fortnightly Review_, London, for their courteous permission to re-print herein parts of certain articles which have previously appeared in their pages.

CLAIR PRICE.

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