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 metropolis; the language spoken is the same, and the people with the exception of the long robed Arabs have for their prototypes the continental Frenchman. So perfectly does this colonial city ape in its architecture and in the details of its daily life the most attractive of the world's great capitals that we involuntarily look for the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, and the Seine. The Hotel de l'Europe is Parisian in its appointments. The conçierge, the garçon, and the femme de chambre are of the usual Gallic type. At table d'hôte we realize that one of the greatest blessings of the French conquest is the fact that the French cook has followed the French soldier into Africa. The military chiefs did but prepare the way for the advent of one greater than themselves—the culinary chef. Vive la cuisine Française.

HOTEL DE L'EUROPE

Our windows overlook on one side the Mediterranean, on the other the Place Bresson, a square green with palms, and surrounded by the buff and yellow