PREFACE. vii

Egyptian and British history is a matter not for me but for my readers to decide.

Meanwhile, whatever the decision may be, I wish

to express my gratitude for the valuable assistance I

have received in the compilation of this narrative from my friends, Lord Cromer. Sir Charles Rivers Wilson,

Boghos Pasha Nubar, Artim Pasha, and Charles Royle, the author of the Egyptian military campaigns.

I, for my own part, shall be well content if the " Story

of the Khedivate ** should lead my fellow-countrymen to appreciate more fully than they, perhaps, have done hitherto, the part England has played in the fortunes of a country with which I. after a humble fashion,

have been so long and so closely associated.

Edward Dicey.

London,

1st January, 1902.