A Dweller in Mesopotamia / Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden

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sset of our Empire? At first, when the war had freed the country from the Turkish yoke, it was assumed that it would rise into unheard-of prosperity under the fatherly care of British protection. Schemes of irrigation, long planned and to some small extent begun,

the Inspector of Irrigation in Egypt, as necessary to turn Mesopotamia into a prosperous country with an annual revenue in fifty years time of ten millions a year, should be used for house building in England and not for empire building in Chaldea. On the other hand, wise men have told us that the Mesopotamian oilfields near Mosul are t

all the stock-in-trade of a township amounts to a few pots and pans and house material of cane matting and mud makes it impossible to impress them by destroying their houses. In a few

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arious provinces regarded the job as a poor one, as far as the amenities of life were concerned, and one to be endured while making as big a pile as possibl

ay and effectively "dried up" the waters of the river for the passage of the armies. They themselves expected to be kings of the East although coming from the West, and some, it is interesting to note, explain the Prussians as of

ing colonists from the Far East so that the denizens of China or Japan shall begin, like the S

cerned. Perhaps before these pages are in print something decisive will have occurred. We read daily

s which it fostered, Babylonian and Assyrian, Persian, Greek and Arabian, is once more, b

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he even rarer gift of finding old-world romance and adventure in places near at hand where their presence would never be suspected by the ordinary traveller.... Mr. Maxwell's book is wholly free from any suspicion of guide-book padding, and is as interesting an

droit economic draughtsmanship, his keen observation, and the feeling of per

ler, that there is a danger of forgetting Mr. Maxwell the artist. All the work has character; most of i

us laugh and long to follow in his footsteps, for he has the gift of description in words as well as in pictures. This is one of the most tho

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book. Mr. Maxwell's book is a g

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r in the autumn and winter of 1918, when sent on duty to Palestine

ity and humour; the reader is irresistibly carried on from on

ll better 'picture book,' and it is a valuable addition

Colour nor the black and white reproductions leave anything to be

nir of the Last Crusad

t delightful album of scene

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ly good and vivid, and the text is

it. One of the most attractive books whi

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