Cities of the Dawn / Naples - Athens - Pompeii - Constantinople - Smyrna - Jaffa - Jerusalem - Alexandria - Cairo - Marseilles - Avignon - Lyons - Dijon

by J. Ewing Ritchie

PREFACE.

In this new publication, consisting chiefly of articles which appeared in the Christian World, the Echo, and the East Anglian Daily Times, the author makes no pretence to original information, or to have acted the part of an antiquarian explorer. He has simply gone over ground familiar to many, and to which all holiday-makers will turn in increasing numbers, partly for pleasure, and partly on account of the absorbing interest attaching to the route here briefly described. To such he offers his services as guide, philosopher and friend, trusting also that many who stay at home may be interested in the story here told.

With regard to the illustrations, the author acknowledges the kindness of Dr. Lunn and Messrs. Cassell in allowing him the use of them, and especially is grateful to Miss Pollard, the daughter of the author of that valuable work, ‘The Land of the Monuments,’ for permission to use her sketch ‘Dawn on the Great Sphinx,’ which he has utilized for his frontispiece.

Clacton-on-Sea.

CONTENTS

chapter		page
i.	a run across france	[1]
ii.	off to naples	[7]
iii.	naples of to-day	[13]
iv.	pompeii and vesuvius	[23]
v.	the isles of themediterranean	[33]
vi.	about athens	[41]
vii.	constantinople	[54]
viii.	smyrna	[71]
ix.	jaffa to jerusalem	[77]
x.	the holy city	[84]
xi.	bethlehem	[103]
xii.	the jew in jerusalem	[110]
xiii.	alexandria	[124]
xiv.	in cairo	[135]
xv.	the pyramids and the sphinx	[153]
xvi.	the river nile	[164]
xvii.	the return to marseilles	[172]
xviii.	avignon	[186]
xix.	the great city of lyons	[194]
xx.	dijon, or the wine country	[206]
xxi.	books of reference	[214]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	page
dawn on the great sphinx	Frontispiece
two-berth cabin, ‘midnight sun’	[4]
the bay of naples	[19]
temple of venus, pompeii	[27]
the corinth canal	[38]
temple of victory	[47]
the parthenon	[49]
a busy street in constantinople	[56]
a mosque on the bosphorus	[58]
the quay, constantinople	[60]
galata bridge, constantinople	[65]
an old street, constantinople	[67]
the gate of persecution, near ephesus	[73]
jerusalem: via dolorosa and pontius pilate’s house	[79]
view from st. stephen’s gate, with russian church and garden of gethsemane	[81]
general view of jerusalem from the convent of the sisters of zion	[93]
the church of the holy sepulchre	[95]
bethlehem	[105]
pompey’s pillar, alexandria	[126]
general view of cairo	[136]
a street in cairo	[137]
tomb of the caliphs of cairo	[139]
donkey-boy, cairo	[142]
colossal statue of rameses ii.	[154]
pyramid and sphinx	[156]
the great sphinx	[157]
a tourist steamer—cook’s nile flotilla	[169]
the new harbour, marseilles	[173]
marseilles	[175]
the castle of the popes, avignon	[189]
the place bellecour, lyons	[197]

CHAPTER I.

A RUN ACROSS FRANCE.