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 A TERRACED TOWN

oft-repeated applications of prosaic whitewash. Above that resplendent mass of houses formerly stood the citadel or kasbah of the much-dreaded Algerine deys, whose successful lawlessness was the cause that led the French to undertake the conquest of Algeria. No more do fleets of Corsairs set forth from Algiers' splendid harbor; no more do pirate chiefs return hither laden with booty of inestimable value and bringing scores of Christian captives doomed to lives of toil or to the slavery of Moorish harems. In three-score years and ten great changes have been wrought. The magnificent effect produced by the modern face of this much-altered city is owing to Anglo-Saxon enterprise. For it was an English syndicate that constructed the splendid quais of cut stone