One or two novels and plays dealing with the History may here be mentioned. The career of Cleopatra has inspired two noble tragedies, Shakespeare’s _Antony and Cleopatra_, and Dryden’s _All for Love_; extracts from them are given on p. 214. Dryden’s masterpiece should be better known; it is most moving, admirably constructed, and contains some magnificent scenes. A novel by Pierre Loüys, _Aphrodite_, also treats of the period, but in a scented Parisian way.—Anatole France, _Thais_, pictures life in the 4th cent. A.D.; the details are both vivid and accurate, and build up a perfect work of art.—For the early 5th cent. there is Charles Kingsley’s _Hypatia_, a rousing yarn about the final contest between Paganism and Christianity; Kingsley is always readable, but his bluff burly mind was incapable of understanding Alexandria.—Two good novels by Marmaduke Pickthall, _Said the Fisherman_ and _Children of the Nile_ touch upon events in the modern period. * * * * * (B). GUIDE.:— *_E. Breccia, Alexandrea ad Aegyptum._ In French: English translation announced. Deals mainly with Classical Antiquities. Two sections—the first dealing with the remains in the city and environs, the second with the Greco-Roman Museum, of which Professor Breccia is the distinguished Curator. I am under much obligation to this fine scholarly book, especially in the following sections:—Greco-Roman Museum, Catacombs of Anfouchi and Kom es Chogafa, Serapeum, Abousir. Prehistoric Harbour:—*_E. Jondet, Les Ports submergés de l’ancienne Isle de Pharos_. A monograph by the discoverer. Magnificent Maps. Pharos and Fort Kait Bey:—_H. Thiersch, Pharos, Antike, Islam Und Occident_. A standard monograph, but exhibiting the defects as well as the merits of German Scholarship. Canopus and Aboukir:—*_J. Faivre, Canopus, Menouthis, Aboukir_. Published in French and English. *_R. D. Downes, A History of Canopus._ These excellent pamphlets supplement one another, the first dealing with the literary evidence, the second with the typography. Rosetta:—*_Max Herz Bey, Les Mosquées de Rosette_ (various articles in the _Comptes Rendus_ of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments Arabes). St. Menas:—*_C. M. Kaufmann, La Decouverte des Sanctuaires de Menas_. By the Excavator. Natrun Monasteries:—_A. J. Butler, Ancient Coptic Churches_. * * * * *