Identifier: criticinocciden00fitc (find matches)
Title: The critic in the Occident
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George Hamlin, 1952-
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Publisher: San Francisco : P. Elder & Co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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° c ; c ii 0 h_fc *L ~ u 5 3 &*« s « o I IQ S 1 Z I = S b -o — • - or. < C/2 EGYPT, THE HOME OF HIEROGLYPHS, TOMBS AND MUMMIES Picturesque Oriental Life as Seen in Cairo f ■ ^he first impression of Cairo is bewildering.None of the Oriental cities east of Port Said 1 is at all like it in appearance or in street life.The color, the life, the pi&uresqueness, the noises,all these are distinctive. Kyoto,Manila,Hongkong,Singapore, Rangoon, Calcutta, Bombay and Co-lombo-each has marked traits that differentiate itfrom all other cities, but several have marked like-nesses. Cairo differs from all these in having notraits in common with any of them. It stands aloneas the most kaleidoscopic of cities, the most bizarrein its mingling of the Orient and the Occident. Ismail Pasha, who loved to ape the customs ofthe foreigner, made a deliberate attempt to convertCairo into a second Paris, by cutting great avenuesthrough the narrow, squalid streets of the old city,but Ismail simpl

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