Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, MFR, Barry Abrahamsen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ALEXANDRIA: A HISTORY AND A GUIDE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BY THE SAME WRITER: HOWARDS END, THE LONGEST JOURNEY, THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS, ETC., ETC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To G. H. L. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Vue d’Alexandrie—extraite du IOVRNAL DES VOYAGES DE MONSIEVR DE MONCONYS LYON M DC LXV. See p. 84] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALEXANDRIA: A HISTORY AND A GUIDE By E. M. FORSTER, M.A. CANTAB. If a man make a pilgrimage round Alexandria in the morning, God will make for him a golden crown, set with pearls, perfumed with musk and camphor, and shining from the East to the West. Ibn Dukmak. To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen. Plotinus. ALEXANDRIA: WHITEHEAD MORRIS LIMITED --- 1922. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. ------- THIS book consists of two parts: a History and a Guide.