ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 The Rev. Canon Girdlestone, 5I.A., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following elections were announced : — 



Member : — Rev. A. P. Parker, D.D., China. 



Associates : — G. Stanley St. Amant, Esq., B.Sc, Paris ; Rev. J. Collins, 

 M.A., Cantab., Yorks. ; Rev. A. Dickens, B.A., Yorks. ; Surgeon- 

 General W. J. van Someren, M.R.C.S., London. 



The following paper was then read, the Author being in America : — • 



NOTES ON LITERATURE IN EGYPT IN THE 

 TIME OF MOSES. By the Rev. J. N. Fradenburgh, 

 Pb.D., D.D., LL.D. 



4 T the period of the XVIIIth dynasty, the literature of 

 J\. Babylonia had already become extensive. Two great 

 collections of sacred writings had been produced. The one 

 consisted of magical formulas, by the proper use of which 

 the priestly sorcerer could compel all spiritual beings to 

 obey his will ; the other was made up of hymns to the gods. 

 These two collections, however, were not entirely separate. 

 The invocations and incantations were not without elevated 

 passages ; the hymns sometimes fell aAvay into pure magical 

 mutterings. Perhaps the most remarkable single work in 

 Babylonian literature is the great epic of primitive Chaldea 

 that probably assumed its present form in the revival of 



* February 7th, 1898. 



"\* I have not burthened this paper with references, but among those 

 to whom I am under special obligations in its preparation I may mention 

 Professors Maspero, Flinders Petrie, D.C.L., and JErman. 



