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Excerpt from Rambles in Cairo <p>HE letters, of which the following are a modified and enlarged form, appeared in the Sphinx during the winter of 1916-1917 [11 under the title Of A Convalescent in Cairo. They purported to be written by a convalescent and represented actual excursions with wounded soldiers, several of whom showed the keenest and most intelligent interest in what they saw. One of them, an elderly Territorial, served as a model for the imaginary author of the Letters as they appeared in the Sphinx and would indeed have been quite capable of writing them. Having repeatedly been asked to compile a guide-book to Cairo monuments, it occurred to me that the material Ihad collected for the purpose of those excursions might be used in connection with a simple work of the kind required. <p>It would however have proved a gigantic task to write a monograph of each of the 359 historic monuments of Cairo, and, on the other hand, the Chronological Table which forms the most useful part of this little work would have been somewhat dry if published entirely by itself. It is hoped that the Letters, referring as they do to the most celebrated buildings, and written with an almost complete absence of technical details; for readers absolutely new to the subject, may serve to awaken the interest and gratify the curiosity of people with a latent taste for Moslem architecture and history, who may afterwards find the Chronological _table useful if they continue their studies of this fascinating and somewhat neglected branch of art, I have been careful in each letter to give clear indications of the locality of every monument mentioned, so that, with the aid of the excellent plan supplied by the Survey Department, no traveller should experience any difficulty in finding his way through the labyrinthine native quarters of Cairo. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book