Excerpt from Egypt Illustrated: With Pen and Pencil
Very naturally, this series of events did not pass without wide differences of Opinion as to the policy and the justice of the part played by England. The extremes are represented. On the one hand by those who hold that England had no right to go near Egypt at all and on the other by those who think that England ought to take Egypt and govern it in the interest of the natives, as she has done in India. But with all such divergencies of view we have nothing to do here. We allude to the series of events only because it is impossible in any work on Egypt to ignore them. The blood and treasure which England has spent during the last ten years in that ancient land have necessarily deepened the interest felt in it by all thoughtful readers. Deeds of bravery and heroism have not been lacking, whether we deem them to have been done in a righteous cause or not. And this volume, in its new and improved form, will help to make clear to those at home the land and the people on whose behalf they were done.
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