2 JANUARY 1915, Page 24

THE SULTAN OF EGYPT.

[To me EDITos or rem "wsecwsc"1 8114—The correct spelling of the name of the Sultan of Egypt is Husain. In the Arabic the "e" is not double either in Hamm or in Husain, which are two distinct names, though they are often confused by European writers. They both mean " handsome " or "beautiful," and they were the names of the two grandsons of the Prophet Muhammad, the children of hie daughter Fatima and his eon-in-law Ali. The title of Sultan of Egypt has been in abeyance for four centuries. The last bearer of it was the hiamelnke Toman Bey, who was hanged over one of the gates of Cairo by his conqueror, the Ottoman Sultan Salim the Ferocious, just four hundred years