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The Tour
By the same author
- Old People and the Things that Pass
- Small Souls
- The Later Life
- The Twilight of the Souls
- Dr. Adriaan
In Preparation
The Inevitable.
The Tour
A Story of Ancient Egypt
By
Louis Couperus
Translated from the Dutch by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Louis Couperus
Translated from the Dutch by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Thornton Butterworth Ltd.
62 St. Martin’s Lane London W.C.2
62 St. Martin’s Lane London W.C.2
First published November, 1920
Copyright, U.S.A., 1920.
by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
Translator’s Note
I am greatly indebted to my friend John Sargeaunt for a number of extremely useful comments and suggestions and to my friend Stephen McKenna for his version of the Hymn to Aphrodite in Chapter VII. and for assistance in the translation generally.
A. T. de M.
Crowborough, 10 July, 1920.