The “Guide” calls for no introduction. It is written from the practical standpoint, and is intended to be used on the spot. Maps and plans accompany it. The city is divided into sections, the visitor in every case starting from the Square. Other sections deal with the environs, and with the surrounding country as far as Rosetta on the east and Abousir on the west. In transliterating Arabic names I have preferred the French system: there are three English systems, each backed by a rival government department, so the French seems the safer course, and if I have not kept to it rigidly, I am only following, though at a respectful distance, the example of the Alexandria Municipality. Here and there some History has crept into the Guide—notably in the case of Aboukir, whose fortunes, though dependent on Alexandria’s, present features of their own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AUTHORITIES. ------- There is, so far as I know, no monograph on Alexandria, and though the present little book makes no claim to original research, it has drawn together much information that was hitherto scattered. The following works, among others, have been consulted; those marked with an asterisk are published locally. (A). HISTORY:— Ptolemaic Period:—_Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire des Lagides_. A scholarly and delightful work. 4 vols. Ptolemaic Literature:—_A. Couat, La Poésie Alexandrine_; well written. _Theocritus_, translated A. Lang. Christian Period:—No satisfactory work. _S. Sharpe, History of Egypt until the Arab Conquest, vol. 2_ may be consulted; also _Gibbon_, chs. 21 and 47. _Mrs. Butcher, The Story of the Church in Egypt_ is full of information, but uncritical and diffuse. Arab Conquest:—_A. J. Butler, The Arab Conquest of Egypt_. A monograph of the highest merit, brilliantly written and practically reconstructing the episode. Jewish Thought:—_E. Herriot, Philon le Juif._ Neo-Platonism:—Various works. There is a lucid introduction to Plotinus in _S. McKenna, Translation of the Enneads_, vol. 1; this admirable translation is still in progress. _Porphyry’s Letter to Marcella_ (translated, A. Gardner) is also interesting. Christian Theology:—See under “Christian period.” The Fathers can be read in the _Ante-Nicene Christian Library_. Arab period:—Too obscure to possess a history. Napoleonic Wars:—_Mahan, Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution_, chs. 9 and 10. _R. T_. _Wilson, History of the British Expedition to Egypt_. See also below, under Aboukir. General Modern History:—_D. A. Cameron, Egypt in the Nineteenth Century_. A well-written book by the late Consul General at Alexandria; contains good account of Mohammed Ali. The works of Lord Cromer, W. S. Blunt and Sir V. Chirol are also useful. Events of 1882:—_C. Royle, The Egyptian Campaigns_.