542 SEYFFARTH—-CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 
Moreover, he continues, “ Champollion laid the solid foun- 
dation of the whole science of Egyptian philology.” Wh 
not Dr. Young, who discovered the first articles for all future 
pollion’s system really is the key to the whole Egyptian lite- 
rature; and therefore the Rev. Reviewer will excuse the 
boldness which ventures slightly to enlarge his catalogue for 
the benefit of his friends. 
In 1829, in a confidential moment, Champollion said to me, 
“we want another Rosetta-stone to enable us to translate 
whole Egyptian texts”; although he ought to have said— 
Egyptian texts. At least, this open confession demonstrates 
that Champollion himself was somewhat more truth-loving 
than his advocate. rg 
In the London Review, No. CLX., p. 158, we read, “it is 
one thing to be able to read proper names of kings, another 
_ thing to be able to decipher and explain a page of the Tod- 
tenbuch (the Turin sacred records). 
Further, “a most learned and accomplished scholar,” Mr. 
G. Long (Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum. Vol. 
_IL, p. 361), “has declared that if the hieroglyphic mode of 
_ writing be a complex system, the same text, the same arheerd 
and perhaps the s taining al ical, 
and figurative elements,” as is the case according to Cham- 
no man in his senses will ever trouble himself about 
Be g a hieroglyphic text.” It is true, the Rev. P. Re- 
houf. 
