Abstract

A Prince's Tour in Egypt

This article critically appraises the books, "A Diary in the East, During the Tour of the Prince and Princes of Wales," by William Howard Russell and "Journal of a Visit to Egypt. Constantinople, the Crimea, Greece, etc., in the Suite of the Prince and Princes of Wales," by William Grey. Russell's book is referred to as an intelligent and entertaining account of his excursion in the East, at first in the party of the Duke of Sutherland, which accompanied that of the Prince and Princess of Wales as far as the first cataract of the Nile; afterwards as himself a member of the Royal party during their visit to Constantinople, Turkey, and Sebastopol, California. On the other hand, Grey, in her book, lays no claim to any knowledge of the monuments of Egypt, and writes a state of ignorance as to what it is all about.