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We note with pleasure that it is intended to erect

a monument in memory of Sir Ralph Abercrombie and the victory of the British army at Alexandria. Subscrip- tions may be sent to the manager of the Bank of Egypt, either at the branches in Cairo and Alexandria, or at the office of the bank in London. It is proposed that the monument shall be erected next spring, and dedicated in the month of February, 1901, which will be the centenary of Abercrombie's death. We greatly hope that the subscriptions will be sufficient to make the monument worthy of its subject. Abercrombie was a really great soldier, and his masterly soln- tion of the problem, how to laud a large body of troops on an open coast in face of the enemy, will live in military history.