t:This is the form of the inscription, as 
published by the French ; and it consists of 
two hexameters and five pentameters. Mon- 
sieur Villoison has filled up the lacune, and 
corrected the slips of the graver ; and pre- 
¥ . . . 
sented it in the following form : 
“4 \ { ~ 7 L 4 
Tawuxio tor) ropes, mais J ovbane véos 
/ ? viz, \ / > 2 E;: 
Asis ix pingov moos TarER EVTECI NY. 
Sak 5 ~ >a” dF 
Odx Zobns & tAnpov idery yavov oss cv nv 
\ 
Gos: 
= = Ee ’ > ‘ ? X / 
Tipaiw reveiw ov rapovy arhru Etov* 
‘ ny a¢ ~ /, 3 5 Cd a? 
‘H Qovepa duyuas move adinouTe TUXYN® 
‘ 
yy ann: 
\ / \ hn 9 12: 46 
Xngiay duornvov modes aa oppavin 
+ «Jn English: 
_ This is the tomb of Glaucias, thata youth 
has consecrated to his father, as a testimony 
of his filial affection, of which he has given 
proofs from his infancy. . Jt was not thy lot, 
5 wretched Glaucias! to live long enough 
to see what.thy son was able to do for thee ; 
"mot in providing thee with a monument, but 
in procuring thee means of living in thy old 
age. To thee, and thine, Fortune has been 
uniformly unjust; to thy aged mother she 
has given tears; to thy wife widowhood, 
with. a wretched orphan-sou! 
_ ‘In order to correct the measure of the 
~ seventh verse, Monsieur Villoison writes 
'Xnpz, which by no means expresses the sense 
required of widowhood, as he seems ready 
to confess. What is then to be done? 
Xnpiav may be Ionice for Xnpéay, as, it is 
well known, Tpoymbin and cvntrabin are for 
+ Mpoundera and cyntaberx, in Herodotus and 
Aretceus, and zuceSim in the inscription it- 
self; and then it may also be short, like the 
adjectives in sv: quorum penultima corripi- 
tur Ionicé, et Dorice, of which Dr. Burney 
has collected all the instances in his review 
_ of Mr. Professor Porson and Wakefield, rot 
 Baxxpirov; but the next word-is unmanage- 
able as itstands, and must be corrected ; I 
| read, instead of AYZTHNOY AZTHNOY 
ie which means the same thing, and the sense 
}) 4s preserved, and the metre restored. AcInysy* 
© THESE letters are written in the 
" manner of Miss Hamilton’s letters of a 
_ Hindoo Rajah, but the character of the 
_ Mameluke is not so well supported as 
_ that of the Rajah: nothing can exceed 
_ the absurdity of putting such remarks 
_ and reflections asare interspersedthrough 
t LETTERS OF A MAMELUKE.’ 
Mares jaey Ev yneee dingy Oixato, THOE 
these pages, into the mouth of a Mame-' 
Toke. The author seems aware of this, 
98 
in Hesychius is explained dvelnvave yaAemon. 
See also the Etymologicon magnum, where 
dialnves is a poor wretch who has no place to 
set his foot. This agrees very well with an 
orphan. It is not improbable that 4 should 
be engraved for A, since peixpoy has been 
written for sugoy, Onxalo for Oxxalo, and deilas 
for deiZxs 3 and itis highly so, that the au~ 
thor should have thought xneiav could be 
made a dissyllable. The correction here 
proposed is effected by leaving out one let- 
ter; in the sixth line there are two too 
many, EN.” 
Prefixed to this little volume is an 
image of Isis, with the following account 
of its preservation : 
<* Paris is derived from Par Isis, because 
“jt was built near the famous temple of that 
oddess, not far from the scite of the abbe 
of Saint Germain des Prés. At the’ esta- 
blishment of christianity the temple was de- 
stroyed, but the idol remained till the begin- 
ning of the sixth century, when it was 
thrown as a trophy into a corner of the 
church of Saint Germain des Prés, founded 
by Childebert with the title of The Hely 
Cross, and Saint Vincent. This same trophy 
existed in the time of Cardinal Bricconnet, 
Abbé of Saint Germain, in the latter end of 
the fifteenth century, who ordered it to be 
broke to pieces, which order was probably 
never executed, as the image of Isis nursing 
Orus is now at the Petits Augustins, and 
was brought thither, with other monuments, 
out of a French church... Agxeriz, now, 
called Luutetia, is derived from Azuyornss 
whiteness, from the white plaister quarry. on 
which Paris is built. From Acyxérns came 
Lucotesia, and, finally, Lutetia, the second 
syllable having been dropped for shortness, 
as in regatta for remigatta, and Saint Meric 
for Samt Mederic.”’ 
Mr. Weston is not inattentive to.the 
state of manners and amusements among, 
the Parisians, and the reason we have 
said nothing about his account of them 
is, that we have found something else 
to interest us: we find the description, 
too, more ample in many other volumes, 
where there is little else to delay us. 
Arr, AXIV. Letters of a Mameluke : or a moral and critical Picture of the. Manners of 
Paris. i With Notes by the Translator. From the French of Josrru LavaLLer, of 
the Philotechnic Society, Sc. 2 Vols. 12mo. pp. 576. 
and yet suffers the absurdity to remain 
rather than take the trouble of correcting 
it. _ For a Mameluke to criticise the 
works and opinions of the old French 
philosophers ; to send ‘to his friend Gia- 
far, a native and inhabitant of Egypt, re- 
marks on the dramatic merits-of Racine, 
Corneille, &c.; to give him am historical 
account of the factions which have reign- 
