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OUTER ENTRANCE OF THE CITADEL, CAIRO 233 A MECCA DOOR 237 THE ROAD TO CHOUBRA 239 GARDEN-HOUSE AT CHOUBRA, SHOWING PART OF THE LAKE NEAR CAIRO 243 THE KHEDIVE 247 CHIEF WIFE OF EX-KHEDIVE ISMAIL, WITH HER PRIVATE BAND 251 AN EGYPTIAN DANCING-GIRL 259 THE INUNDATION NEAR CAIRO 267 A MOHAMMEDAN CEMETERY, CAIRO 273 SOUVENIRS OF CAIRO 279 HEAD-PIECE 283 PART OF THE TOWN OF CORFU 287 THE PALACE 293 UNIVERSITY OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS 294 SMALL TEMPLE, MEMORIAL TO SIR THOMAS MAITLAND 296 STATUE OF CAPO D'ISTRIA 299 THE TOMB OF MENEKRATES 305 THE ISLET CALLED "THE SHIP OF ULYSSES" 311 VILLAGE OF PELLEKA 315 KING GEORGE OF GREECE 319 QUEEN OLGA OF GREECE 323 "MON REPOS," SUMMER RESIDENCE OF THE KING OF GREECE 327 IN THE GROUNDS OF THE NEW VILLA OF THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA 331 ALBANIAN MALE COSTUME 335 ALBANIAN FEMALE COSTUME 339 GALA COSTUME, CORFU 343 OLIVE GROVE, CORFU 351

AT MENTONE

I

"Kennst du das Land wo die Citronen blühen?"

—GOETHE

It is of no consequence why or how we came to Mentone. The vast subject of health and health resorts, of balancings between Torquay and Madeira, Algeria and Sicily, and, in a smaller sphere, between Cannes, Nice, Mentone, and San Remo, may as well be left at one side while we happily imitate the Happy-thought Man's trains in Bradshaw, which never "start," but "arrive." We therefore arrived. Our party, formed not by selection, or even by the survival of the fittest (after the ocean and Channel), but simply by chance aggregation, was now composed of Mrs. Trescott and her daughter Janet, Professor Mackenzie, Miss Graves, the two youths Inness and Baker, my