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continuous state of activity which often robs him 

 of sleep at night. Beyond his work, he has little time 

 for anything except hurried pleasure. 



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As the years pass b)', we shall doubtless adapt our- 

 selves to these new conditions of life, changing gradu- 

 ally our economic standards and our means of produc- 

 tion. Meanwhile, are we in danger of losing that high 

 sense of beauty which has characterised the evolution 

 of man for several thousand years, and which is so 

 clearly manifested as existing over three thousand years 

 ago by these new testimonies to the civilisation of 

 the ancient Egyptians ? Is it possible that great 

 art can be created and enjoyed to-day ? Great Britain 

 and the United States of America and Germany are 

 typical industrial nations. Comparisons are apt to 

 give false verdicts, but the inhabitants of Italy and 

 Austria appear on the average to possess a greater 

 sense of beauty than the inhabitants of these three 

 nations. We should not like absolutely to lay down 

 the law on this point. We are too near to our own age 

 ever to judge of it fairly and, at least, the love of 

 beauty still lives on to a greater or less degree in the 

 hearts of most of us. Future changes may yet restore 

 to us an existence of greater peace and contemplation, 

 and in the present we may well seek a refuge from 

 turbulent realities in searching for the loveliness w-hich 

 exists even in our feverish world ; 



A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ; 



Its loveliness increases ; it will never 



Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep 



A bower quiet for us, and a sleep 



Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. 



AN AERONAUTICAL LIBRARV 



The Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society announces 

 that through the generosity of the Trustees of the Carnegie 

 United Kingdom Trust it has been able to arrange for the 

 purchase of a large number of valuable historical books on 

 aeronautics which would otherwise have shortly been sold to 

 an American purchaser. This purchase, together with the 

 works already possessed by the Society, renders its collection 

 of early and modern aeronautical literature probably unsur- 

 passed in this or any other country. Comprising as it does 

 many early works of extreme rarity as well as the most modern 

 English and foreign treatises, the Society's library will now 

 form a complete collection of all important works on aeronautics 

 from the eighteenth century down to the present day. In 

 recognition of its appreciation of their generosity the Council 

 of the Royal Aeronautical Society has, at the request of the 

 Carnegie Trustees, agreed to make the books in the Society's 

 library available for any student in the British Isles through 

 the medium of the Central Library for Students, 9 Galen Place, 

 London, W.C.i. The Central Library for students has been 

 formed by the Carnegie Trustees to provide a loan collection 

 for students of technical books which are unsuitable for placing 

 in rural libraries. By receiving permission to use the Royal 

 Aeronautical Society's Library the Central Library for Students 

 will be spared the necessity of forming a special section devoted 

 to aeronautics. 



The Life of 

 King Tutankhamon 



By T. E. Peet, M.A. 



Professjr of Egyptology in ths Uiiiucrsitij 0/ Liojrpiiol 



It is an evil moment in which to attempt to write a 

 life of King Tutankhamon, for if the papyri found 

 among Lord Carnarvon's treasure in the new tomb 

 reallv prove to be of historical import, they will revolu- 

 tionise our knowledge of this ruler. At the same time 

 it mav enhance the value of the new discovery if we 

 can succeed in realising how small our knowledge at 

 present is. 



Tutankhamen's Father -in-Law, Institutor of 

 the Sun Cult 



Readers of Discovery ^ will remember that about 

 1370 B.C. the young King Am2nhotep IV abandoned 

 the religion and the capital of his fathers, and moved 

 from Thebes to a place now known as Tell el-Amarna 

 300 miles farther down the Nile, where, under the new 

 name of Akhenaten, he devoted his life to the worship 

 of the Sun God under the form of the Aten or Disk, 

 after doing everything in his power to suppress the 

 worship of all other deities throughout his kingdom. 

 We know from the year- dates on wine jars found at 

 Tell el-Amarna, or Akhetaten, as the Egyptians called 

 it, that this king reigned at least seventeen years. 

 He had no sons, but seven daughters ; of these the 

 eldest was married to a man named Sakere (sometimes 

 read Smenkhkere), the second died in childhood, and the 

 third, Ankhcsenpaaten, was married to Tutankhamon, 

 who in those days was called Tntankhaten. WTien 

 Akhenaten died he was succeeded by Sakere, the 

 length of whose reign we do not know, though there is 

 every reason to suppose that it was very short. On his 

 death the second son-in-law, Tutankhaten, ascended 

 the throne. It is certain that he ru.led for some time 

 in Akhetaten, for large numbers of scarabs and blue 

 glaze finger-rings inscribed with his name have been 

 found there. Yet we have no means of ascertaining how 

 long his rule in Akhetaten lasted, for not a single object 

 of his with a year- date has as yet been found there. 



Why Tutankhamon Returned to Thebes 



It is, however, certain that sooner or later, probably 

 sooner, he decided to abandon Akhetaten and return 

 with the Court to Thebes. The reasons for this step 

 are probably to be found in the unpopularity of the 

 new Disk-worship. The change had hit very hard 



1 See The Cily of the Sun Cult, by Prof T. E. Peet, in Dis- 

 covery, vol. ii. No. 22. 



