Historical Geography. 1900. Iraq. Here are no glass shelves laden with bottles of many-coloured unguents. Even the barber's chair is absent, and a rough man laid upon the unkind surface of the mud wall must serve the purpose. Those who sit and wait have the benefit of a tree's welcome shade, and the passer-by is perhaps weighing his chances of a shave in the near future against their number. The little girl is determined to miss no detail of this fascinating operation, and the photograph admirably illustrates the leisureliness and the indifference to publicity that characterise the Oriental man in the conduct of his personal affairs.