Today's installment concludes Saracens Destroy the Great Library,our selection from Mahomet and His Successors by Washington Irving published in

"The contents of those books," said he, "are in conformity with the Koran, or they are not. If they are, the Koran is sufficient without them; if they

Alexandria now lay before them, the metropolis of wealthy Egypt, the emporium of the East, a place strongly fortified and garrisoned, stored with all