hate to be worried and hate to have their welfare attended to.... Oppression they can bear with equanimity, but interference for their own good they never brook with grace” (_ibid._). He shows a profound historic sense: “he does not disguise his preference for countries with ‘a past’ over countries with ‘a future’” (_ibid._), and finds in the nature of the Oriental the conditions for a true equality. “He recognises the fact that there is more equality because less snobbery and pretence in Asia than in Europe” (_ibid._). The only feature that is wanting in this book is a knowledge of Jews and of Zionism. He makes but once mention of this matter, in a short sketch of the Jews at Nisibin. “The Jews at Nisibin . .. their appearance is much improved by Oriental costume ... in which they look noble and dignified.” He then adds: “I trust that the Uganda Zionists will adopt my suggestion” (p. 141). One who believes in the assimilation of the Jews may snobbishly consider this also as anti-Semitic, but in fact it is only the harmless joke of an artist, for Sykes was essentially an artist. His drawings were excellent, he was also very musical, and had a great predilection for all true individuality, for the archaic, the original, the unadulterated, for race, nationality, _genius loci_, for everything racy and natural, and for everything that was not cliché, mechanical and snippety. ¹ _Through Five Turkish Provinces_, by Mark Sykes. London, Bickers and Son. 1900. ² _Ibid._, p. 127. ³ _Tactics and Military Training._ By Major George d’Ordel and Captain Mark Sykes. London. 1902. ⁴ _Dar-Ul-Islam._ A record of a journey through Ten of the Asiatic Provinces of Turkey. By Mark Sykes. London. 1904. ⁵ “The F Company, 3rd Batt. Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regiment, who served in South Africa, 1900‒2.”