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Babylon of Egypt. By A. J. Butler. (Clarendon Press. 4s.

6d. net.)—In this "study in the history of Old Cairo" Mr. Butler discusses the meaning to be attached to the term Babylon in the Arab chronicles of Egypt. Diodoras Sicultts stated, in the first century B.C., that a number of prisoners who had been brought to Egypt from Asiatic Babylon by Sesostris revolted against his oppression and founded a settle- ment in a strong position on the Nile, which they called Babylon after their former home. Mr. Butler succeeds, to our mind, in identifying the site of this settlement with that of Old Cairo. His ingenious and learned arguments will be read with interest by students of Egyptian history.