excavated ai a later period than the qu<- 



collapse of the roof above. A curious illustra- 



f MI ancient Egyptian belief it afforded by 



ittn having a pair of baby shoe* bur- 



fed with it. The shoes en- rut m two to render 



them useless to a spoiler, while they would re- 



al food M ever fur the child'* UM in 



: carry Mid wear iu *hor* alternately on iu 

 !%* they oarried and wore their* 

 . does still) oo earth. Near thr 



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Iab,lonlaa.-The 



in the valle of the 

 mt- 



has axeaVair 

 f alluvul 



f Alexander's 



'- 



- ' r 



i 1*. r l-hfledelpaia, who 



in the region, on UM basi. 



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I, . !...!, in. i) otJl ii '*" OB < M brjtti m 

 t ...... air ritual A numb* ol la* < wtt 



1-r.u.t QlotlMl n lT-.nl evide* ..... f Uw survival of 

 UM practice of mummification far into Christian 

 time*. One of a IMV 



r bearin* upon the controversy at to 

 UM remarriage 



k .it \i, xi.idrla.-An 



te] n 



<,<tiam*r //.-The 



inscription* and sculptures on the Mark marble 

 liseovered by Uvard 

 ,rod in 1846. and pteserred ta ith. 6riu 



exploration of the ancient < 

 ha* been made by M -aVth. 



.ilf ..f th.- K.- 



it rerealing any promise of important dis- 

 coveries. The central part of the 



tnm r. to : Be* thick Meth . BpnS 3 

 A mb living refuse, containing no objects of 



r*t. Su.-h P-tnmi.H > .-x^l ..f th. |;..MU,M 



one of the groups of flgur**-wbich 

 cupy *> panels-records the sui 

 to the Assyrian king and his 



:. . " ' i - .- .: 



prostrate be! ore the great 

 hit ambassador. On other 



are 



the appearance of 'baring been nnn.il MV: 

 iyttematii-ally. while immediately below thut 

 water ta are found that 



ti, nahMtobeidetL Mr. Bogarth boooriiM : 

 that nogrvat mine of museum treasure romain.H 

 to be explored under Alexandria: that itt libra- 

 ries have perishc :m< 1 1 hat al 1 t he mon- 



s have been destroyed or robbed of what 



give them value an<l 



xcavations of Dr. Botti, the Director of 



Mu*-um. in th.- neighborhood of 



1'illar, have result.-.) in tho discovery 



..f UM Berapeom, wfaeti th,- laej f kfat |M 



hi .rari of Alexandria was preserved. The dis- 



Borerlai belude th.- pi*c\*a ..f UM fountain f 



the AcropolK with thr <-hanmN nit through the 



rock which conducted the water to it : inscrip- 



tion* of th. i 1 ail rian and Sevens, dedi- 



: is in,. I th.- .: >hined 



with hun in the temple*': remains of gilded 



ornaments and n Lull of flne workmanship, all of 



ame from the great central court ; a few 

 tombs: and long subterranean passages cut 

 through the rock under the site of ancient 



.nd once accessible from the court. The 



are depicted bearing in tht 

 shoulders too articles of 

 composed. TwoAssyrian 



scroll, from which he reads the proffered mb- 



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.1 - /. /. . : 



In a paper read in the Anglican Church Con- 

 gress at Norwich Pr. f. A. 11. -.,-..- iirmsitsjd 

 <tudir* with those of 

 other Orientalists of the collection* of 



-X-- sj : 



been ooOeoted during^sereral yearjjaet^in re- 



hes prosecuted in Kgy^c, Syria,, 



tamia a> N-arinc -n th.- . Ndftffllj - f th. i .M .V-i 

 New Testaments. 



MSJU are very 



.. .. : . . , 



passages are broad and lofty, and were originally 

 raced with masonry. Here an.i 



he lamps whirh illuminated the 

 passages, 

 I M ..f Phils?. -The Egyptian 



>ters has approved a proposal 



to make a thorough examination of the 



bates of the temple, and explore the subter- 



ranean passage* that !and. The 



will be done by the 1'iiblir Works Depart- 



an officer from th< tea Depart- 



ment attending to insure that all objects of in- 

 terest are preserved. 



them date back to a period s 

 teriortothctimcofkoses. Of the 

 b^ofUMteaUasoai UMJ ,:' rd,tt 

 that we now know that the Mosaic age in the 

 East was a highly literary one, and thai it would 

 have been a miracle if 



Egypt or in Canaan, hail not haml in the gvoe- 

 ralUterarv. :e. In the century be- 



fore the Exodus an active nm lenjMiiMliiii < was 

 constantly going on from the banks of the N 

 those of the Eoph rales, and this 

 was in the foreign language 



ofBaMonia,] *afln7t 



the civilixvd Kast of seaoois and libraries, of 

 toacihnrs and pupils. The antiquity of Baby- 

 lonian literature was equally great. The chief 

 hoastcd of their libraries, 

 some of which ha.1 been fomndcd six thousand 

 years ago. and at the very tin* when Abraham was 

 bora In Ur of UM Chelies one of itenoeta was 



formed the dose of a long prmding period of 



cerned, we can not too soon rid otirselves of the 

 notion that literature is a modern invention. 

 Moses, then, could have written the Pentateuch. 

 an-l those to whom it i* addressed could bare 

 read and understood it. The books of the Old 

 Testament are but a fragment of the Hebrew 



