SIR GASTON MASPERO. XI 



" Bibliotheque Egyptienne." of which nine vohnnes alone constitute 

 his own contributions, thus brought together from the various 

 mediums through which they were originally published. He wrote 

 a large number of less technical articles for the Journal des Dcbats 

 and the literary periodicals of France, some of which were collected 

 in a volume " Ruines et Paysages d'Egypte." He found time even 

 to write reviews of the works of others. Most of these reviews 

 were of publications within his special field, but not infrequently he 

 went outside of it to call attention to productions in the larger 

 realm of Oriental history, religion, archaeology or art. It was a 

 privilege indeed to have one's work passed upon by such a master. 

 He could be severe and caustic, but he was also invariably kind and 

 generous and encouraging to the younger men as they arose in the 

 ranks. I trust that I may be pardoned for a personal allusion by 

 referring to the encouragement that I received as a young man by 

 the honor of having my first larger publication — about twenty years 

 ago — reviewed by Maspero. 



His last important work, published late in 1912 and appearing in 

 several languages, was an illustrated manual " Art in Egypt " sum- 

 marizing and elucidating the periods and characteristic features of 

 Egyptian art in a manner that he alone, with his unrivalled knowl- 

 edge, was capable of doing. This was followed in 191 3 by an Eng- 

 lish translation of his collected " Studies in Egyptian Art " that had 

 appeared in various journals during the past thirty years. 



But he carried on all this heavy burden of activity at the expense 

 of his health. His executive duties bore heavily on him as the years 

 rolled on ; the hours that he snatched for his own scientific and lit- 

 erary labors were stolen from a leisure to which he was richly en- 

 titled. For him, as for so many unceasing workers, the motto of 

 life was " Repos ailleurs " — a noble but a fatal motto. I saw Pro 

 fessor Maspero for the last time in the spring of 191 2. During the 

 fifteen years that had elapsed since I met him in Paris at the Inter- 

 national Congress of Orientalists, he had grown old and he ap- 

 peared to be — what in effect he was — worn out by his incessant 

 labors. He apologized for not being able to devote more time to 

 visitors, because of the pressure of the work, and one saw that he 

 was obliged to be feverishly active in order to get through the tasks 



