2/6 pPant Tsore, kege'r2&/, and "biji'iey. 



Arrived at the Court, Batou, metamorphosed into the bull, is wel- 

 comed and feted. Egypt has found a new god. During one of 

 the festivals he takes the opportunity of whispering into the ear 

 of her who had formerly been his wife: "Behold, I am again 

 alive — I am Batou! You plotted and persuaded the king to fell 

 the Cedar, so that he might occupy my place at your side when I 

 was dead. Behold, I am again alive — I have taken the form of a 

 bull ! " The queen faints away at hearing these words ; but speedily 

 recovering herself, she seeks the king and asks him to grant her a 

 favour — that of eating the bull's liver. After some hesitation, the 

 king consents, and orders that a sacrifice shall be offered to the 

 bull, and that then he shall be killed ; but at the moment the bull's 

 throat is cut, two drops of blood spirt out: one falls to the ground, 

 and forthwith two grand Perseas (the Egyptians' tree of life) shoot 

 forth. The king, accompanied by his wife, hastens to inspect the 

 new prodigy, and one of the trees whispers in the queen's ear that 

 he is Batou, once more transformed. The queen, relying on the 

 doting affediion which the king entertains for her, asks him to 

 have this tree cut down for the sake of the excellent timber it will 

 afford. The king consents, and she hastens to superintend the 

 execution of his orders. A chip struck from the tree whilst being 

 felled, falls into the mouth of the queen. Shortly she perceives 

 that she has become enceinte. In due course she gives birth to a 

 male infant. It is Batou, once more entering the world by a novel 

 incarnation !" 



CELANDINE. — The Great or Major Celandine [Chelidonium 

 major) is also called Swallow-wort and Tetter-wort, and is thought 

 to be efficacious in the cure of warts and cutaneous disorders. It 

 derives its name from the Greek Chelidon, a swallow — not, says 

 Gerarde, " because it first springeth at the coming in of the 

 swallowes, or dieth when they go away, for as we have saide, it 

 may be founde all the yeare, but because some holde opinion that 

 with this herbe the dams restore sight to their young ones, when 

 their eies be put out." This magical property of the Celandine 

 was first propounded by Aristotle, and afterwards repeated by 

 Pliny, Dodoens, Albert le Grand, Macer, and most of the old 

 botanical writers. Coles fully believed the wonderful fadl, and 

 remarks: "It is known to such as have skill of nature, what won- 

 derful care she hath of the smallest creatures, giving to them a 

 knowledge of medicine to help themselves, if haply diseases annoy 

 them. The swallow cureth her dim eyes with Celandine; the wesell 

 knoweth well the virtue of Herb Grace ; the dove the Verven ; the 

 dogge dischargeth his mawe with a kinde of grasse," &c. Lyte also, 

 in his ' Herbal,' fully supported the ancient rustic belief that the 

 old swallows used Celandine to restore sight to their young. He 

 says the plant was called Swallow-herb, because " it was the first 

 found out by swallowes, and hath healed the eyes and restored 

 sight to^their young ones that have had harme in their eyes or have 



