Excerpt from Cairo Fifty Years Ago: With a Plan of Medieval Cairo

Sixty years have passed since Lane published his 'Modern Egyptians.' The book was recognised at once as a work of high authority, and the two generations of travellers and writers that have grown up since its first appearance, so far from superseding it, have confirmed the original judgment. The 'Modern Egyptians' still holds its place unchallenged as the classical description of the life and manners of the Mohammadans of Egypt, and especially of Cairo.

Yet it must have occurred to many readers, as a singular omission, that although the larger part of the 'Modern Egyptians' refers to the inhabitants of the capital, where Lane spent many years, the book contains no description of Cairo itself.

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