THE LETTER-WRITER IN CONSTANTINOPLE 



Most of the Turks cannot write, and are forced to use this means as a substitute for their 

 lack of education. Not only are prosaic or business matters transacted m this way, but also 

 for a small consideration the most tender and impassioned love letters are composed, while 

 the less imaginative lover sits and waits. The ladies, too, have need of ^is services, and, 

 despite the risk, enjoy the novelty of communicating with those outside of their forbidden 

 haremlik. — Photo and note by A/[orTimER J. Fox. 



Dame at Paris, 72 5^ears ; Milan Cathe- 

 dral, over 500 5^ears ; the Cathedral of 

 Cologne, 615 years; Sancta Sophia, fin- 

 ished centuries before those other vener- 

 able Christian temples were begun, not 

 quite six years ! 



THE MOST COSTLY EDIEICE EVER BUILT BY 

 CHRISTIAN HANDS 



The cost must remain very largely a 

 matter of conjecture. Probably the care- 

 ful and laborious estimate of the Greek 

 historian. Professor Paparrigopoulos, is 



475 



