204 Alfred Charles Smith—In Memoriam. 
be remembered as one who never failed to be courteous—who 
never lost his temper—whom ill-health apparently never made 
irritable—whose stores of information were always at other people’s 
service—who was as little selfish or opinionated as it is in human 
nature to be—who was delightful as a companion—and whose 
friendship was a privilege. The County of Wilts owed much to 
him in life, and in death he will be remembered as not the least of 
her Worthies. 
Obituary notices of him appeared in The Devizes Gazette, Dec. 15th, 1898; 
The Trowbridge Chronicle, and The Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, January, 1899. 
4 Bibliographical Hist of Books, Articles, *c., by 
Ghe Heo. A. €. Smith. 
The Attractions ot the Nile and its Banks. A 
Journal of Travels in Egypt and Nubia, showing 
their attractions to the Archzologist, the 
Naturalist, and General Tourist. Two vols. London: 
John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1868. Cloth. Post 8vo. Vol. I., pp. xxiv., 
282, with three illustrations; Vol. IL., pp. xiv., 295, with three illustrations. 
In these volumes—the pleasantest, perhaps; of all his books of travel—the 
author gives an account of a four months’ tour in company with his father 
and a friend in the spring of 1865, in Egypt and Nubia, three months being 
spent in a journey up the Nile as far as Wady Halfa in a “ Dahabeah.” In 
the preface he sets forth his object in writing, as being not so much to describe 
the antiquities and the monuments which have been fully dealt with in many 
books, but rather the impressions the author received from them, the incidents 
of the daily life of the traveller in Egypt, the customs of the country, and 
other matters which cannot be gleaned from guide books. He gives, for 
instance, an interesting chapter on the Old Coptic Churches of Cairo, describing 
an interview which he had with their patriarch, and defending the Copts as a 
body from the mea? poured on “Nite in many books et ' travel | 
him evidently more ornithological than archzological. 
