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ancient ; and, in view of these facts, it is surprising what little light has since been shed, through the medium of the press, on this land of varying fortunes.

With regard to religious work in the East, the Rev. Montague Fowler, M.A., has proved himself much alive to the needs of the situation, and the opinions he has formed, after close observation and diligent investigation on the spot, found telling ex pression last year in his volume, entitled Christian Egypt (publishers, &quot; Church Newspaper Company, Limited&quot;), which should become as popular with, and as helpful to, travellers as the indispensable Cook s Guide, besides being a veritable acquisition to the library. In parts the book reminds one of the New Testament narratives let us say, of the narratives of St Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, in relation to the Church at Corinth, at Antioch, at Ephesus, at Galatia and at Macedonia. From beginning to end it imparts an abundance of information. In consecutive order, the author brings into review all the romantic history of the Church of Egypt from the dawn of the Christian era through the stormy days of Athanasius and Cyril, the bitterness of the Mohammedan Conquest, and the sub sequent oppression of the Coptic Church down to the dawn of the twentieth century, and in terse language he describes the doings of the Anglican, the Greek, and the Roman Catholic Churches, as well as those of the several Nonconformist bodies.

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