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Baron, "was it likely that Amrou, who was guilty of 

 burning the Alexandrian library, should possess 

 sufficient capacity to carry out so grand an idea? " 



Now there are in this speech almost as many errors 

 as words 1. Mahomet was dead when the Saracens 

 invaded Egypt. 2. Omar did not conquer the valley 

 of the Nile. 3. The canal from Suez to Pelusium 

 had existed for centuries. 4. Amrou did not burn 

 the Alexandrian library, seeing that it had been 

 destroyed two and a half centuries before. 



APPENDIX U, PAGE 201. 



The Edinburgh Review of April, 1873, draws a very 

 powerful contrast between Mr. Darwin's Expression 

 of the Emotions in Man and Animals, and Sir Charles 

 Bell's Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression in Con- 

 nexion with the Fine Arts, very much in favour of the 

 latter. I have recently had an opportunity of reading 

 these two works of such distinguished writers in 

 sequence to each other, and can readily add my 

 testimony in support of the justice of the reviewer's 

 verdict. "With regard to style and treatment," 

 says the Edinburgh, " Sir Charles Bell was not more 

 decisively Mr. Darwin's superior as an anatomist 

 and physiologist than as a man of taste, and of 

 literary and philosophical culture. His style is 

 marked by the rarest union of gracefulness and 

 strength, of purity, precision, and admirably co- 

 ordinated scientific and literary power. On the other 

 hand, Mr. Darwin's writing is marked by slang 

 phrases, vulgarisms, and a pervading looseness of 



