Abstract

Special Correspondence

The article presents news briefs related to various topics all round the world. It would be difficult to explain the singular attraction which the land of the Pharaohs has so long had for France. France military leader Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt was perhaps the origin of it, though it was, on the whole, unsuccessful, and ended in a disastrous capitulation. This expedition was conceived, at the time, as an indirect attack on England, but it was a mere incident in the revolutionary wars. In an another news, an appeal has been made to a foreign audience, an audience whose artistic perceptions are the reverse of lively, whose ear does not respond quickly to the magic French utterance, and whose mind does not easily find its way among the intricacies of French sentiment.