| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Egypt and the Nile | 1 |
| II. | How in Egypt Nature affected Man | 12 |
| III. | Who were the Egyptians? | 25 |
| IV. | Egypt the Japan of the Old World | 42 |
| V. | Backsheesh.—The Girl of Bethany | 45 |
| VI. | Antiquity and Character of the Pyramid Civilization | 52 |
| VII. | Labour was Squandered on the Pyramids because it could not be bottled up | 57 |
| VIII. | The Great Pyramid looks down on the Cataract of Philæ | 70 |
| IX. | The Wooden Statue in the Boulak Museum | 72 |
| X. | Date of Building with Stone | 75 |
| XI. | Going to the Top of the Great Pyramid | 85 |
| XII. | Luncheon at the Pyramids. Kêf | 92 |
| XIII. | Abydos | 97 |
| XIV. | The Faioum | 105 |
| XV. | Heliopolis | 117 |
| XVI. | Thebes—Luxor and Karnak | 124 |
| XVII. | Thebes—The Necropolis | 133 |
| XVIII. | Thebes—The Temple-Palaces | 144 |
| XIX. | Rameses the Great goes forth from Egypt | 154 |
| XX. | Germanicus at Thebes | 164 |
| XXI. | Moses’s Wife | 168 |
| XXII. | Egyptian Donkey-boys | 170 |
| XXIII. | Scarabs | 177 |
| XXIV. | Egyptian Belief in a Future Life | 182 |
| XXV. | Why the Hebrew Scriptures ignore the Future Life | 193 |
| XXVI. | The Effect of Eastern Travel on Belief | 244 |
| XXVII. | The Historical Method of Interpretation | 257 |
| XXVIII. | The Delta—Disappearance of its Monuments | 266 |
| XXIX. | Post-Pharaohnic Temples in Upper Egypt | 285 |
| XXX. | The Rationale of the Monuments | 290 |
| XXXI. | The Wisdom of Egypt, and its Fall | 299 |
| XXXII. | Egyptian Landlordism | 328 |
| XXXIII. | Caste | 332 |
| XXXIV. | Persistency of Custom in the East | 337 |
| XXXV. | Are all Orientals Mad? | 341 |
| XXXVI. | The Koran | 345 |
| XXXVII. | Oriental Prayer | 349 |
| XXXVIII. | Pilgrimage | 355 |
| XXXIX. | Arab Superstitions.—The Evil Eye | 359 |
| XL. | Oriental Cleanliness | 365 |
| XLI. | Why Orientals are not Republicans | 370 |
| XLII. | Polygamy—Its Cause | 374 |
| XLIII. | Houriism | 381 |
| XLIV. | Can anything be done for the East? | 389 |
| XLV. | Achmed tried in the Balance with Hodge | 396 |
| XLVI. | Water-Jars and Water-Carriers | 402 |
| XLVII. | Want of Wood in Egypt, and its Consequences | 405 |
| XLVIII. | Trees in Egypt | 410 |
| XLIX. | Gardening in Egypt | 414 |
| L. | Animal Life in Egypt.—The Camel | 417 |
| LI. | The Ass.—The Horse | 424 |
| LII. | The Dog.—The Unclean Animal.—The Buffalo.—The Ox.—The Goat and the Sheep.—Feræ Naturæ | 428 |
| LIII. | Birds in Egypt | 436 |
| LIV. | The Egyptian Turtle | 441 |
| LV. | Insect Plagues | 443 |
| LVI. | The Shadoof | 445 |
| LVII. | Alexandria | 448 |
| LVIII. | Cairo | 458 |
| LIX. | The Canalization of the Isthmus | 472 |
| LX. | Conclusion | 494 |