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Show WHAT AN EMBROIDERED SEA'' IS THE MEDITERRANEAN Whit an embroidered sea It is! Fringed by Spain, France. Italy, Persia Per-sia Greece. Palestine, Egypt. Arabia. We nee the land of the Pharaohs ot Moses. Jesus, Huhammad, Alexander, Caesar Hannibal. Napok-on. Wo sail through the religions, the law. the literature, lit-erature, the art. the traditions that ruled and rule tho . world. Here aro th Pentateuch, the Psalms, Job. tho Gospels, Uie Greek drama and corned corn-ed . the Koran, the Epic of AuUir, tho literature and law ot the Latins and the Italians, and the greatest of comedies, com-edies, Don Quixote, If the Avon emp-! emp-! tl.'d Into the sea It could claim all i tho greatest names In literature. And what a literary gamut It Is from Don ! Quixote to the "thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians! I We sail past Rome, Athens. Car-! Car-! thage. Alexandria. Jerusalem. Mecca ' and through that narrow blue ribbon of the Sue, canal, which binds together- the greatest empire of them all, the British empire. It is the sea of all the most poignant associations of the world. No one's memories are complete without It. Not to know tho Mediterranean and Its associations associa-tions Is not to be educated. Is not to bo a man of the real world, for tho tides of thLs sea are the pulse beats of the heart of history. We Americans Amer-icans are Just mushrooms In a grove of palms and cedars, though we aro mighty good eating the9o days. At Port Said wo are In the anteroom ante-room of the ea-sL I do not Intend to write a guide book. Mecsrs. Murray and Baedeker havo too many literary liter-ary parasites already, but I must, let the Ink bubble occasionally with tnr personal delight. aDd perhaps to old travelers my naif enjoyment of every ev-ery day of those many months spent In the east. I gazed at those Arabs at Port Said, I studied their sensual, sen-sual, and in many cases diabolical, faces with awe and Interest. In Europe Eu-rope other white men are different, to be sure, but it Is possible lo account ac-count for the differences, to analyze tho differences in a superficially satisfactory sat-isfactory way. Rut these human beings be-ings are not merely different, they are something else. From "On tho Way to India." by Price Collins, author au-thor of "England and the English from an American Point of View," in the January Scrlbtier. |